Word "TEASING" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
playfully vexing (especially by ridicule)
Synonyms:
mocking, quizzical

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
Synonyms:
ribbing, tantalization, tease

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
causing irritation or annoyance
Synonyms:
annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, vexatious, vexing
Examples:
a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him

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Clue Source Date
Gets in a state by taunting (7)
Winding up seating, perhaps (7)
After a drink belt out, just kidding (7)
Making fun of age isn't wrong Mirror Cryptic 02 May 2025
Mocking Mirror Quick 02 May 2025
Sing after supper - kidding (7)
Ragging - like Tommy Tucker did? (7)
Bantering - gets in a confused state (7)
Gets in a mess baiting (7)
Mockery of seating arrangement (7)
Playful mockery(7)
The kind of smile a new champion has? (7)
Tongue-in-cheek tweet after something brewing? The Telegraph Toughie 10 Dec 2024
Give musical performance after evening meal, which is provoking
A gent is terribly irritating (7) The Guardian Quiptic 02 Jun 2024
Ribbing The Sun Mini 31 May 2024
Mocking, taunting
Playful harassment (7)
Get in trouble about, when only kidding (7)
Making one's hair stand on end? LA Times Daily 22 Mar 2024
For an offence, interred in Newgate? You're kidding! (7)
Tantalising
Flirtatious: like a pleasing crossword clue? (7)
It's tantalising what the kettle does after a meal (7)
Poking fun at LA Times Daily 22 Dec 2021
After meal, perform music, not serious
Get in, as out raising nap The Telegraph Toughie 23 Jun 2021
Good-natured ridicule Wall Street Journal 22 Apr 2021
Provocative The Telegraph Quick 09 Apr 2021
Mocking The Telegraph Quick 21 Jul 2020
Baiting The Telegraph Quick 09 Jun 2017
Some playfulness New York Times 23 Mar 2017
Some playfulness
Dinner function government is winding up
New stage in harassment The Telegraph Cryptic 22 Feb 2016
Drink then chant in mockery
Mild mockery
Drinks in gallons – that's worrying
Playful mockery
Just kidding
Just kidding
Needler's activity
Hair-raising activity
Annoying
Vexing with impertinence.
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