English words for 'One who teases.'
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noun
- One who teases.
- A single act of teasing.
- someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
- One who deliberately arouses others (usually men) sexually with no intention of satisfying that arousal.
- a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
- the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
verb
- (transitive) To backcomb.
- (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
- (transitive, informal) To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
- (transitive) To entice, tempt.
- (transitive) To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
- (transitive) To deliberately arouse someone sexually with no intention of satisfying that arousal.
- (transitive) To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).
- (transitive) To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately in a playful way.
- (transitive) To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.
- mock or make fun of playfully
- tear into pieces
- ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- annoy persistently
- separate the fibers of
- disentangle and raise the fibers of
- raise the nap of (fabrics)
- to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them
noun
- One who teases or pokes fun.
- someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
- (television, video) A brief portion of a television episode or video that is shown at the beginning, often before the main title sequence, meant to introduce the story and entice viewers to watch the rest of the episode.
- The stoker of a glassworks furnace.
- (fishing) A lure, especially one without a hook, used to attract fish to another lure or lures.
- (textiles) A person or thing that teases.
- (electricity) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open.
- (marketing) A preview or part of a product released in preparation of its main advertising, typically a short film, song, or quote.
- (UK) An assistant who accompanies the 'Obby 'Oss in the May Day festivities of Padstow, Cornwall.
- One who excites a person or an animal (see gomer) sexually without fulfilment.
- (theater) A short horizontal curtain used to mask the flies and frame the top of the inner stage opening, adjustable to the desired height.
- (fishing) A lure used in addition to a bucktail used for fluke fishing.
- (UK, dialect) A kind of gull, the jaeger
- an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest
- a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings
- an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show
- a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
- a device for teasing wool
- a worker who teases wool
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verb
noun
- one who is playfully mischievous
- (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
- (British, colloquial) A supporter (or less commonly, a player) of the Lincoln City Football Club.
- (video games, slang) Synonym of god (“person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon”).
- A baby Tasmanian devil.
- (often humorous) A mischievous child.
- (chiefly fiction and mythology) A small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature, somewhat comparable to a demon but smaller and less powerful, formerly regarded as the child of the devil or a demon (see sense 3.2).
verb
- (figuratively, from sense 3) To provide (someone or something) with wings, hence enabling them or it to soar.
- To add to or unite an object with (something) to lengthen the latter out or repair it; to eke out, enlarge, strengthen.
- (falconry, veterinary medicine) To engraft (a feather) on to a broken feather in a bird's wing or tail to repair it; to engraft (feathers) on to a bird, or a bird's wing or tail.
noun
- one who is playfully mischievous
- any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
- (derogatory) Synonym of uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's.
- A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
- (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Any simian primate other than hominids; any monkey or ape.
- (historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
- (slang, vulgar, uncommon) A penis.
- (cladistically) Any simian, including humans.
- (slang, derogatory) Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another.
- (slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
- (strictly) A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
- (dance) A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
- (slang) The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing.
- (blackjack) Synonym of face card.
- The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.
- (slang) Synonym of five hundred, especially (British) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars.
- (derogatory) Synonym of idiot: a person of minimal intelligence.
- (slang, nautical) The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.
- (informal, sometimes offensive) A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child.
- (slang, highly derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.
- (slang, usually derogatory) A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence.
- (slang) A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
verb
noun
- one who is playfully mischievous
- a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest)
- a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- (derogatory) A disreputable fellow, a good-for-nothing, a scapegrace, a blackguard.
- (Philippines, law enforcement, military) rogue police; rogue military personnel
- (informal) A badly behaved person, especially a child; a mischief-maker; a rascal.
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noun
- One who harries.
- A runner, specifically, a cross country runner.
- A kind of dog used to hunt hares; a harehound.
- Any of several birds of prey in the genus Circus of the subfamily Circinae which fly low over meadows and marshes and hunt small mammals or birds.
- a persistent attacker
- a hound that resembles a foxhound but is smaller; used to hunt rabbits
- hawks that hunt over meadows and marshes and prey on small terrestrial animals
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verb
adj
noun
- Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
- (used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce.
- (uncountable) The wood of a spruce.
- light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork
- any coniferous tree of the genus Picea
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noun
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noun
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
- a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities
- a card certifying the identity of the bearer
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- a list of dishes available at a restaurant
- a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited
- a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures)
- thin cardboard, usually rectangular
- (golf) a record of scores (as in golf)
- one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes
- (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat
- A business card.
- (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
- Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
- (nautical) Ellipsis of compass card.
- A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
- (Philippines, education) Ellipsis of report card.
- A test card.
- A bank card.
- (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
- (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
- (uncountable) Paper that is thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than paperboard, used for postcards, playing cards, etc.; card stock.
- (computing) Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces.
- A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
- In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point.
- (graph theory) A graph formed from a given graph by deleting one vertex.
- (television) A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
- A greeting card.
- Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).
- Any electronic payment (rather than a cash payment using notes, bills or coins).
- (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
- (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
- An indicator card.
- A playing card.
- A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
- (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
verb
- ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor
- separate the fibers of
- (transitive, US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
- To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
- (transitive, golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
- (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
- (transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
noun
verb
- move from side to side
- To move continually, especially in gossip; said of the tongue.
- (intransitive, cricket, slang) Of the tail (lower order of the batting lineup): to score more runs than expected.
- To swing from side to side, as an animal's tail, or someone's head to express disagreement or disbelief.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To play truant from school.
noun
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
- mental ability
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- (now usually in the plural) Sanity.
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
- Humour, especially when clever or quick.
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
- Intelligence; common sense.
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
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verb
noun
noun
- A person who makes jokes.
- (slang) A funny person.
- A loser.
- An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
- (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
- (military) A friendly unit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.
- A jester.
- A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
- A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
- (figurative) Something kept in reserve that can be used to gain an advantage; a trump card.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that moves like the last piece that was moved by the opponent.
- The option, in a pub quiz, of selecting one particular round in which one's team will score double points.
- a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes
- a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
- a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester
- an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent
noun
noun
- (informal) An amusing person.
- A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
- A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
- (UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
- (slang, Ireland) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
- A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
- A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
- A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
- (category theory) A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine
- a brief literary description
- preliminary drawing for later elaboration
adj
verb
noun
- One who teases.
- A single act of teasing.
- someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
- One who deliberately arouses others (usually men) sexually with no intention of satisfying that arousal.
- a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
- the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
verb
- (transitive) To backcomb.
- (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
- (transitive, informal) To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
- (transitive) To entice, tempt.
- (transitive) To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
- (transitive) To deliberately arouse someone sexually with no intention of satisfying that arousal.
- (transitive) To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).
- (transitive) To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately in a playful way.
- (transitive) To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.
- mock or make fun of playfully
- tear into pieces
- ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- annoy persistently
- separate the fibers of
- disentangle and raise the fibers of
- raise the nap of (fabrics)
- to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them
noun
- One who teases or pokes fun.
- someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
- (television, video) A brief portion of a television episode or video that is shown at the beginning, often before the main title sequence, meant to introduce the story and entice viewers to watch the rest of the episode.
- The stoker of a glassworks furnace.
- (fishing) A lure, especially one without a hook, used to attract fish to another lure or lures.
- (textiles) A person or thing that teases.
- (electricity) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open.
- (marketing) A preview or part of a product released in preparation of its main advertising, typically a short film, song, or quote.
- (UK) An assistant who accompanies the 'Obby 'Oss in the May Day festivities of Padstow, Cornwall.
- One who excites a person or an animal (see gomer) sexually without fulfilment.
- (theater) A short horizontal curtain used to mask the flies and frame the top of the inner stage opening, adjustable to the desired height.
- (fishing) A lure used in addition to a bucktail used for fluke fishing.
- (UK, dialect) A kind of gull, the jaeger
- an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest
- a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings
- an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show
- a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
- a device for teasing wool
- a worker who teases wool
noun
noun
verb
noun
- one who is playfully mischievous
- (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
- (British, colloquial) A supporter (or less commonly, a player) of the Lincoln City Football Club.
- (video games, slang) Synonym of god (“person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon”).
- A baby Tasmanian devil.
- (often humorous) A mischievous child.
- (chiefly fiction and mythology) A small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature, somewhat comparable to a demon but smaller and less powerful, formerly regarded as the child of the devil or a demon (see sense 3.2).
verb
- (figuratively, from sense 3) To provide (someone or something) with wings, hence enabling them or it to soar.
- To add to or unite an object with (something) to lengthen the latter out or repair it; to eke out, enlarge, strengthen.
- (falconry, veterinary medicine) To engraft (a feather) on to a broken feather in a bird's wing or tail to repair it; to engraft (feathers) on to a bird, or a bird's wing or tail.
noun
- one who is playfully mischievous
- any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
- (derogatory) Synonym of uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's.
- A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
- (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Any simian primate other than hominids; any monkey or ape.
- (historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
- (slang, vulgar, uncommon) A penis.
- (cladistically) Any simian, including humans.
- (slang, derogatory) Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another.
- (slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
- (strictly) A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
- (dance) A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
- (slang) The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing.
- (blackjack) Synonym of face card.
- The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.
- (slang) Synonym of five hundred, especially (British) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars.
- (derogatory) Synonym of idiot: a person of minimal intelligence.
- (slang, nautical) The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.
- (informal, sometimes offensive) A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child.
- (slang, highly derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.
- (slang, usually derogatory) A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence.
- (slang) A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
verb
noun
- one who is playfully mischievous
- a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest)
- a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- (derogatory) A disreputable fellow, a good-for-nothing, a scapegrace, a blackguard.
- (Philippines, law enforcement, military) rogue police; rogue military personnel
- (informal) A badly behaved person, especially a child; a mischief-maker; a rascal.
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
- One who harries.
- A runner, specifically, a cross country runner.
- A kind of dog used to hunt hares; a harehound.
- Any of several birds of prey in the genus Circus of the subfamily Circinae which fly low over meadows and marshes and hunt small mammals or birds.
- a persistent attacker
- a hound that resembles a foxhound but is smaller; used to hunt rabbits
- hawks that hunt over meadows and marshes and prey on small terrestrial animals
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
- a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities
- a card certifying the identity of the bearer
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- a list of dishes available at a restaurant
- a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited
- a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures)
- thin cardboard, usually rectangular
- (golf) a record of scores (as in golf)
- one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes
- (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat
- A business card.
- (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
- Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
- (nautical) Ellipsis of compass card.
- A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
- (Philippines, education) Ellipsis of report card.
- A test card.
- A bank card.
- (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
- (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
- (uncountable) Paper that is thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than paperboard, used for postcards, playing cards, etc.; card stock.
- (computing) Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces.
- A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
- In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point.
- (graph theory) A graph formed from a given graph by deleting one vertex.
- (television) A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
- A greeting card.
- Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).
- Any electronic payment (rather than a cash payment using notes, bills or coins).
- (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
- (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
- An indicator card.
- A playing card.
- A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
- (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
verb
- ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor
- separate the fibers of
- (transitive, US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
- To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
- (transitive, golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
- (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
- (transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
noun
verb
- move from side to side
- To move continually, especially in gossip; said of the tongue.
- (intransitive, cricket, slang) Of the tail (lower order of the batting lineup): to score more runs than expected.
- To swing from side to side, as an animal's tail, or someone's head to express disagreement or disbelief.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To play truant from school.
noun
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
- mental ability
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- (now usually in the plural) Sanity.
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
- Humour, especially when clever or quick.
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
- Intelligence; common sense.
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
prep
verb
noun
noun
- A person who makes jokes.
- (slang) A funny person.
- A loser.
- An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
- (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
- (military) A friendly unit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.
- A jester.
- A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
- A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
- (figurative) Something kept in reserve that can be used to gain an advantage; a trump card.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that moves like the last piece that was moved by the opponent.
- The option, in a pub quiz, of selecting one particular round in which one's team will score double points.
- a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes
- a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
- a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester
- an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent
noun
noun
- (informal) An amusing person.
- A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
- A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
- (UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
- (slang, Ireland) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
- A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
- A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
- A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
- (category theory) A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine
- a brief literary description
- preliminary drawing for later elaboration
adj
verb
verb
adj
noun
- Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
- (used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce.
- (uncountable) The wood of a spruce.
- light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork
- any coniferous tree of the genus Picea