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▪ I. teasing, vbl. n.1|ˈtiːzɪŋ|
[f. tease v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of tease v.1
1. a. The pulling asunder of the fibres of wool, hair, animal tissue, etc.: see tease v.1 1. Also attrib., as teasing-needle.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Carmenadura, teasing, carminatio. 1851Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. iv**/1 The web of cleaned cotton..is passed through a lapping machine, and..undergoes a further teazing. 1873T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. (ed. 2) 118 The cells have been separated by teasing. 1891Cent. Dict., Teasing-needle, a needle for teasing, or tearing into minute shreds, a specimen for microscopic examination.
b. U.S. Hairdressing. Back-combing; also, a similar treatment given with a small brush.
1923F. Korf Art & Fundamentals of Hairdressing II. ii. 31 The public seems to fear the back-combing, or as it is often called, teasing of the hair, perhaps with some justification. 1964D. Z. Hanle Hairdo Handbk. vii. 71 Properly done, teasing can play an important part in finishing a hairstyle... Use a small..teasing brush. 1975C. Calasibetta Fairchild's Dict. Fashion 260/1 Bouffant, hair exaggeratedly puffed out by means of teasing.
2. Petty irritation: see tease v.1 2.
1678Butler Hud. iii. ii. 452 Not by the force of Carnal Reason, But indefatigable Teazing. 1731Swift On Pulteney 1 Sir Robert weary'd by Will Pulteney's teazings. 1858Doran Crt. Fools 212 He was compelled to endure the teazing of the domestics.
3. slang. A flogging: see tease v.1 3. ? Obs.
1807H. Tufts in E. Pearson Autobiogr. of Criminal (1930) ii. iv. 292 Teasing, whipping. 1821P. Egan Life in London i. 11 The innumerable teazings thou hast book'd. 1865Daily Tel. 27 Oct. 5/2 ‘When I've had another teasing,’ said a boy thief..alluding to the hangman and his cat, ‘I shall be as good as Tommy So-and-So’.
▪ II. ˈteasing, vbl. n.2 local.
[f. tease v.2 + -ing1.]
The keeping up of the fire in a furnace. In quot. attrib.
1894Northumbld. Gloss. s.v. Teaser, The glass-house teasers wore broad-brimmed felt hats..to protect them from the scorching fires. They also wore ‘hand-hats’ of thick felt, to enable them to hold the long iron teasing pokers.
▪ III. ˈteasing, ppl. a.
[f. tease v.1 + -ing2.]
That teases; pettily irritating, annoying, or vexatious.
1694Addison Ovid's Met. ii. Coronis 19 And by a thousand teizing questions drew The important secret from him. 1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 311 She complains of a teazing cough. 1847Helps Friends in C. I. iii. 34 This is better than to be the sport of a teasing hope without reason.
Hence ˈteasingly adv., in a teasing manner.
1754Richardson Grandison (1781) IV. xxviii. 206 You are disposed to be teazingly facetious. 1906Athenæum 17 Mar. 321/3 He never becomes teasingly minute. |