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▪ I. tease, n.
Also 7–9 teaze.
[f. tease v.1]
1. a. The action of teasing. † upon the tease, uneasy from trifling irritation (obs.). rare.
1693C. Mather Wond. Invis. World (1862) 162 After she had undergone a deal of Teaze from the Annoyance of the Spectre. 1706S. Centlivre Basset-Table iii. 34 There's One upon the Teaze already. 1707― Platonick Lady v. 61, I left her upon the Teaze. 1878–9Lanier Poems, Individuality 10 No pitiless tease of risk or bottomry.
b. tease number, a strip-tease act. U.S.
1927Variety 13 July 35/5 The four feminine principals alternated in ‘tease’ numbers with the help of the chorus. 1930Ibid. 3 Dec. 54 With a fair voice, a nice figure and lots of personality, Miss Almond clicked easily in her tease numbers.
2. a. A person addicted to teasing; one who irritates another in a trifling or sportive way. colloq.
1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xxx, What a teaze you are. 1899B. Harraden Fowler ii. v. 190, I am a tease by nature.
b. spec. = cock teaser s.v. cock n.1 23 (but less coarse). Also transf.
1976New Yorker 16 Feb. 107/2 It's easy to get laughs by..showing women..as rich teases, like Mariangela Melato's role in ‘Swept Away’. 1978D. Devine Sunk without Trace xxii. 202 Sorry, Ken, but..it's not fair to encourage you to try. I will not be a tease. 1979Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. i. 1/2 Lulu is..a cruel tease to the lesbian countess Geschwitz.
▪ II. tease, v.1|tiːz|
Forms: 1 tǽsan, 4–5 tese, 5 teese, 7 teise, 7–9 teize, teaze, 8 teez, teaz, 6– tease.
[OE. tǽsan to tear or pull to pieces, tease (wool, etc.), wk. vb. = OLG. *têsan (MLG., LG. têsen, MDu. têzen, Du. teezen to draw, pull, scratch, NFris. tiese), OHG. zeisan str. vb., MHG. zeisen wk. vb., Ger. dial. (Bav.) zaisen, zeisen (Schade) to tease, pick wool:—OTeut. *taisjan and *taisan: cf. also toase v.]
1. a. trans. To separate or pull asunder the fibres of; to comb or card (wool, flax, etc.) in preparation for spinning; to open out by pulling asunder; to shred.
c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 112 Nim þanne wulle & tæs hy. c1390Forme of Cury in Warner Antiq. Culin. (1791) 17 Take the brawn, and tese it smal. 14..Noble Bk. Cookry (Napier 1882) 102 Then teese the braun of capon or henn small. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Carmenar, to picke wooll, to tease wooll, carminare. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 344 Take Saffron..then tease it, I mean, pull the parts thereof asunder. 1634Milton Comus 751 To ply The sampler, and to teize the huswifes wooll. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxiv. ⁋19 [He] Teizes his Wooll, by opening all the..matted knots he finds in it. 1828P. Cunningham N.S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 151 While teasing out the tobacco-leaf to charge his pipe. 1851Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. iv**/2 The quick moving cards teaze out the fibres, and gradually, very gradually, disentangle them. 1875Huxley & Martin Elem. Biol. xi. (1876) 122 Tease out a bit of the liver in water, and examine with 1/8 obj. 1893A. N. Palmer Hist. Wrexham IV. 10 The flax dressers prepared the flax for the linen spinners and weavers by ‘teasing’ it.
b. To comb the surface of cloth, after weaving, with teasels, which draw all the free hairs or fibres in one direction, so as to form a nap.
1755Johnson, Tease,..to scratch cloth in order to level the nap. 1829J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Nat. 48 Many of these [teasel] heads are fixed in a frame; and with this the surface of the cloth is teased, or brushed, until all the ends are drawn out. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 172 Blankets were made of goats'-wool, teased into a satiny surface by little Teazel-like brushes of bamboo.
†c. To tear in pieces. Obs.
a1550Hye Way to Spyttel H. 888 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 63 Lyke as wolues the shepe dooth take and tease.
d. U.S. Hairdressing. = back-comb vb. trans. s.v. back- B.
1957Amer. Hairdresser Sept. 66 Pick up one inch of hair and with comb, tease the strand. This creates the lift so necessary to the style. 1962E. Frank Best Hairdos 7 Tease entire head gently for fullness. 1978J. Updike Coup (1979) iv. 171 Her hair bleached platinum and teased to a bouffant mass.
e. to tease out (fig.): to extract, get out, obtain, esp. by painstaking effort. Also to tease on to.
1959N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 17 There was a time when Pirandello could tease a comedy of pain out of six characters in search of an author. 1971Language XLVII. 525 It is only by the most careful discrimination that we are able to tease out the critical referential features from the mass of inferential stuff that surrounds them in normal speech. 1974J. A. Michener Centennial x. 580 He was struck with how easy life was in Pennsylvania and how brutally difficult in Colorado, where you had to dig a ditch twenty miles before you could tease a little water onto your land.
2. a. To worry or irritate by persistent action which vexes or annoys; now esp. in lighter sense, to disturb by persistent petty annoyance, out of mere mischief or sport; to bother or plague in a petty way.
1627[see teased 2]. 1679C. Hatton in H. Corr. (Camden) 210 After he had thus teised them for 2 or 3 houres he left them. 1686tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 162 Teizing me for two Hours together with a Thousand Impertinencies. 1710Swift Lett. (1767) III. 23 Lord Halifax is always teazing me to go down to his country house, which will cost me a guinea to his servants, and twelve shillings coach hire. 1774Pennant Tour Scot. in 1772, 283 The violent squalls of wind..teized us for an hour. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. IV. 74 To avoid teizing the reader with a minute description. 1782F. Burney Diary 8 Dec., [They] resisted reading the book till they were teased into it. 1827D. Johnson Ind. Field Sports 208 A boy..was teizing the animal to make it bite him. 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet I. 14 Harry ceased to tease and torment them with little tricks and devices of mischief.
fig.1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. I. 54 The earth..constantly teized more to furnish..luxuries..than.. necessities. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh i. 1050, I..teased The patient needle till it split the thread. 1893Westm. Gaz. 17 Feb. 3/1 It is all done with that flowing brush.., and there is nothing teased or overworked in the whole of it.
b. absol. or intr. (With first quot., cf. touse v.)
1619Fletcher M. Thomas v. vii. What a coyle has this fellow kept i' th' Nunnery,..Pray Heavens he be not teasing. 1693Dryden Juvenal vi. 377 Conscious of Crimes her self, she teizes first. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 144 ⁋6 To teize with feeble blows and impotent disturbance. a1861Mrs. Browning Little Mattie vii, Love both ways, kiss and tease.
c. = strip-tease vb. intr. s.v. strip-tease n. U.S.
1927Variety 13 July 35/5 Where they cooch in New York they ‘tease’ here. 1953Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §593/22 ‘Do a striptease.’.. Strip, striptease, tease.
3. slang. To flog. ? Obs.
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Teaze, to flog or whip. 1865[see teasing vbl. n.1 3].
▪ III. tease, v.2 local.
Also teaze.
[ad. mod.F. tiser (technical) ‘to introduce fuel into a melting-furnace’ (Littré); to fire a furnace; app. aphetic for attiser = It. attizzare, Sp., Prov. atizar to stir (the fire), f. à:—L. ad to + It. tizzo, Sp. tizo, L. titio, burning brand, fire-brand.]
trans. To feed (a furnace fire) with fuel; to attend to (a fire or furnace).
1818J. Adley Coal Trade (Northumb. Gloss.), You must have furnacemen to teaze and rouse the fire. 1894[see teasing vbl. n.2]. |