teasing
Meaning of teasing
- To separate the fibres of a fibrous material.
- To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
- To back-comb.
- To poke fun at.
- To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
- To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.
- To entice, tempt.
- To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
- The act of teasing; making fun of or making light of.
Teasing can be seen as a kind of workplace abuse.
Information about teasing
- The plural form of teasing is: teasings.
- Languages in which teasing is used:
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Hyphenation of teasing
teas-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- teasing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
teasing synonyms
Meaning mocking:
Meaning annoying:
annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, vexatious, vexing
Meaning tease:
Translation of teasing
- Spanish: burla
- French: taquinerie
- Italian: dispetto, burla, scherzo, canzonatura
Anagrams of teasing
easting, eatings, Estaing, gainest, gainset, Genista, genista, ingates, ingesta, seating, signate, tangies, tsigane
Words that rhyme with teasing
sing, Christmasing, Dephasing, abasing, abrasing, aliasing, antialiasing, appeasing, basing, biasing, brainteasing, canvasing, carcasing, casing, ceasing, chasing, creasing, databasing, debasing, deceasing, decreasing, degreasing, dephasing, discasing, diseasing, displeasing, dyscrasing, easing, embasing, encasing, enchasing, encreasing, erasing, feasing, freebasing, goliasing, greasing, imbasing, impleasing, incasing, inchasing, increasing, interchasing, lasing, leasing, liasing, lowercasing, masing, measing, metaphrasing