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Definition: Teasing |
TeasingAdjective1. Playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); "his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air"- Lawrence Durrell. 2. Arousing sexual desire without intending to satisfy it; "her lazy teasing smile". 3. Causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong". Noun1. The act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances; "he ignored their teases"; "his ribbing was gentle but persistent". 2. Playful vexation; "the parody was just a form of teasing". 3. The act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "teasing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1765. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To find yourself teasing any person while dreaming, denotes that you will be loved and sought after because of your cheerful and amiable manners. Your business will be eventually successful. To dream of being teased, denotes that you will win the love of merry and well-to-do persons. For a young woman to dream of being teased, foretells that she will form a hasty attachment, but will not be successful in consummating an early marriage. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Teasing is the act of playfully disturbing another person, either with words or with actions. In mild cases, and especially when it is reciprocal, it is essentially a form of playing. However, teasing can be also used as painful harassment. In extreme cases it may escalate to real violence, and may even result in abuse (in the case of a child: child abuse).Teasing may also be pretending to give the other something which the other desires, or giving it very slowly. This is usually done by arousing curiosity or desire and may not actually involve actual intent to satisfy or disclose.
One may also tease an animal. Some animals, such as a cat or dog, may recognize and enjoy this as playing.
See also: brain teaser, bullying, striptease
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Teasing."
Synonyms: TeasingSynonyms: annoying (adj), bothersome (adj), galling (adj), irritating (adj), mocking (adj), nettlesome (adj), pesky (adj), pestering (adj), pestiferous (adj), plaguey (adj), plaguy (adj), quizzical (adj), vexatious (adj), vexing (adj), comb-out (n), ribbing (n), tease (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pain | Importunate; teasing, pestering, bothering, harassing, worrying, tormenting, carking. |
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Crosswords: Teasing |
| English words defined with "teasing": annoyer, annoying ♦ backchat, banter, blandishment, bothersome ♦ casual, cease ♦ discontinue ♦ galling, give up, give-and-take ♦ insouciant, irritating ♦ jest, joke ♦ lay off ♦ nettlesome, nonchalant ♦ persiflage, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy ♦ quit ♦ raillery ♦ stop ♦ Tantalism, tauntingly, tease, teaser, teasingly, titillation, To come over ♦ vexatious, vexer, vexing ♦ wheedling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "teasing": At you ♦ up off. (references) |
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Screenplays | You're always teasing me, and telling lies (The Others; writing credit: Alejandro Amenábar) God is teasing me (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) You teasing little bitch (She's Out of Control; writing credit: Seth Winston; Michael J. Nathanson) Goddamn teasing alien bastards (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Line-Up and Teasing the Snakes (1901) Teasing the Cook (1899) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Teasing. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | Unsympathetic peers, too, sometimes may make matters worse, through teasing or ridicule. (references) | |
Other problems may result from bullying, teasing, or avoidance in school and other social settings. (references) | ||
Other tools have been developed that make the painstaking work of teasing out the disease's genetic secrets possible. (references) | ||
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| "Teasing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.53% of the time. "Teasing" is used about 376 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 75.53% | 284 | 17,292 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 13.3% | 50 | 48,117 |
| Noun (singular) | 10.37% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.8% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 376 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "teasing": annoying galling chafing irritating nettlesome pesky pestiferous pestilent plaguy plaguey teasing vexatious vexing. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "teasing": teasing-out. | |
Ending with "teasing": brain-teasing, cock-teasing, eve-teasing, pom-teasing, tongue-teasing. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "teasing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ngacmim (banter, bothering, chaff, dig, excitation, excitement, harassment, impulse, irritation, jesting, molestation, nagging, provocation, raillery, rally, rub). (various references) | |
Arabic | مضايقة (annoyance, bothering, discomfort, harassing, harassment, irritation, molestation, nuisance, vexation), إغاظة (enraging, irritation, soreness, vexation). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | подигравателен (derisive, jesting, mocking, sneering, snide, snippy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 戏弄 (tease, teased). (various references) | |
Danish | lukke op (willowing), lokkende reklamemetode, fristende reklamemetode, åbne (open, open up). (various references) | |
Dutch | verleiden (entice, seduce, tempt), lokken (attract, decoy, lure). (various references) | |
Finnish | naljailu (joking). (various references) | |
French | teasing, taquineries, taquinerie, taquin (tease, teaser), vexation, ouverture des flocons, moqueur, aguichage. (various references) | |
German | Teaser-Kampagne, witzelei (wisecrack), uzerei (kidding), Stichelei (dig, gibe, jibe, quip, sewing, snide remark, wisecrack), reizend (charming, charmingly, delectable, delightful, delightfully, fetching, graceful, gracefully, lovely, piquing, provoking, quaint), neckisch (amusing, arch, bantering, coquettish, cute, merry, mischievous, naughty, playful, playfully, saucy, skittish, skittishly, whimsical), neckerei (badinage, Josh, tease), neckend (badinaging, bantering, jollying), hänselei (Josh, pleasantry), frotzelei (banter), foppend (foppe, hoaxing), Aufmachen (cut open, feature, get up, let out, loosen, make up, open, open out, open up, opening, put up, to open up, uncap, unclasp, undo, unfasten, unstop, unzip), Öffnen (opening, willowing). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ק טור (annoyance, irritation, provocation, taunt, vexation), ק טר י (annoying, catty, provocative, quarrelsome, spiteful, vexing), "תא ות (provocation), "ת'רות (aggression, challenge, provocation), "ק ט" (irritation, molestation, provocation, vexation), ס יט" (annoying, mockery, vexing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ugratás (banter, chaff, josh, joshing, kid, leg pull, ragging, raillery). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penggangguan (annoying, interfering). (various references) | |
Italian | teaser compaign, sfiocchettatura (willowing), canzonatura (jest, persiflage, raillery), apritura (willowing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 苛め (bullying). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いじめ (bullying). (various references) | |
Korean | 놀림. (various references) | |
Manx | speeiney (bark, bark as tree, barking, peel, pluck, pluck out, plucking, pull off, rind, skin, skinning, strip, tease out), kerey (cering, comb, combing, curry, curry as horse, groom, hackle; mopping up, hackling; teasel, mop up, tease, tease as wool, teazle, wax). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | easingtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | abertura dos flocos (willowing). (various references) | |
Romanian | tachinare (chaff), sâcâialã (nagging), destrãmare (distance), dãscãlealã, cicãlealã (cavil, fault finding, nag, tease), şicanator (cavilling, fault finding, pettifogging), şicanare. (various references) | |
Russian | дразнить дразнящий. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mučan (heavy, laborious, nauseous, painful, thorny, troublesome, troublous, uneasy), dosadan (acerbate, annoying, boring, bothersome, drear, dreary, grinding, humdrum, incommodious, long-spun, pain in the neck, pesky, poky, repetitious, slow, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, undiverted, vexatious). (various references) | |
Spanish | uso de campañas de misterio, uso de campañas de intriga, guasón (jester, jesting, jocose, joker, jokey, joking, playful, sporty, tease, teaser), guasa (banter, jest, joke, persiflage, slyness), desfibrado (defibrating, defibration, fiberisation, fiberising, fiberization, fiberizing, grinding, pulping, willowing), burlas (chaff, mockery, mocking, raillery, ridicule), burlón (derisive, derisory, jesting, mocking, quiz, quizzical, quizzing, scoffer, sneering, wag), abridora (breaker, opener, opening machine, willowing). (various references) | |
Swedish | retsam (aggravating, annoying, irritating, provoking, quizzical, tantalising, tantalizing, tiresome, vexatious, wicked), kitslig (cavil, censorious). (various references) | |
Turkish | takılma (badinage, banter, being attached, hesitation, Josh, persiflage, put on, quiz, raillery), muziplik (caper, Dido, fooling, frolic, hoax, joke, lark, prank, rag, trick), muzip (buffoon, hoaxer, prankish, puckish, quizzical, rogue, sly, tormenting, tricksy, waggish, wicked), alay (banter, cortege, derision, fleet, fun, gag, gibe, irony, jape, jeer, jest, jibe, joke, leg pull, mock, mockery, parade, persiflage, procession, quiz, regiment, regimental, ridicule, rub, scoff, sneer, taunt, troops in line, wipe). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trêu tức, trêu chọc quấy rầy, sự trêu tức (chafe), sự trêu chọc sự quấy rầy sự tháo, sự rút sợi, sự chòng ghẹo, chòng ghẹo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "teasing": teasingly. (additional references) | |
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"Teasing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: feasing, neasing, Tausinga, tealing, teasings, teason, teating, teaying, tesing, Tiesinga, Tiessing, Tomassini, yeasing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "teasing" (pronounced tē"zing) |
| 4 | -ē" z i ng | appeasing, easing, freezing, pleasing, seizing, sneezing, squeezing, wheezing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | antagonizing, apologizing, appetizing, appraising, arising, abusing, accusing, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, arousing, authorizing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, diffusing, digitizing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, fusing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, oozing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, praising, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reorganizing, reusing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, sensationalizing, sizing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, whizzing, womanizing. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: easting, eatings, ingates, ingesta, seating. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ageist, agents, easing, eating, gainst, giants, ingate, ingest, sating, signet, tenias, tineas, tinges, tisane. | |
-2 letters: aegis, agent, agist, angst, anise, antes, antis, entia, etnas, gains, gaits, gates, gents, getas, giant, gnats, inset, nates, neats, neist, nites, saint, satin, segni, sengi, senti, singe, stage, staig, stain, stane, stang, stein, sting, tains, tangs, tenia. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: angriest, antigens, astringe, beatings, eastings, estating, feasting, gahnites, ganister, gantries, gelatins, genitals, gentians, giantess, granites, ingrates, mangiest, mintages, misagent, naggiest, rangiest, sauteing, seatings, sedating, steading, stealing, steaming, sweating, tangiest, tziganes, unitages, vintages, yeasting. | |
+2 letters: absenting, agentings, agentives, agentries, agonistes, alginates, anglesite, antigenes, arresting, assenting, asserting, astringed, astringes, athelings, attesting, basseting, beastings, breasting, caseating, casketing, demasting, desalting, designate, egyptians, emigrants, estraying, fastening, gainliest, galenites, gangliest, ganisters, gannister, gantlines, gauntries, gelatines, gelations, geminates, gestating, gestation, gnarliest, gnathites, gnattiest, gradients, grainiest, gratinees, grievants, hastening, indagates, ingathers, instigate, integrals, jangliest, legations, ligaments, magnesite, magnetics, magnetise, magnetism, mastering, misagents, miseating, naethings, navigates, negations, negatives, orangiest, paginates, recasting, repasting, reseating, reslating, restaging, restating, retasting, safetying, sensating, seriating, serrating, sheathing, signature, slangiest, snaggiest, staginess, steadings, steadying, stealings, stingaree, streaking, streaming, tangibles, tangliest, tasseling, teachings, teaseling, teasingly, trapesing, triangles, twangiest, umangites, unseating, vintagers, waterings. | |
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