tease

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Below the tease is the link to the actual blog, which is hosted on WordPress.

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  1. transitive verb To annoy or pester; vex.
  2. transitive verb To make fun of; mock playfully.
  3. transitive verb To arouse hope, desire, or curiosity in without affording satisfaction.
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  • We completely don't get the use of a publisher's identity as a tease -- although we're talking about it right now on a fairly popular gaming site, so maybe we do. —  Joystiq [Nintendo]
  • Below the tease is the link to the actual blog, which is hosted on WordPress. —  The Daily News Transcript Homepage RSS
  • The practice of using book-end spots as a tease was used to reinforce the "tease" of burlesque.
  • During a newscast, though, we use something known as a tease.
  • It is a strip-tease, and therefore is not "work-safe," a phrase one applies, as I understand it, to web pages that do not contain the Lord's Prayer. —  I Blame The Patriarchy
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

playful ·  sly ·  sardonic ·  sarcastic ·  mischievous ·  seductive ·  sexy ·  flatter ·  cynical ·  naughty ·  gentle ·  humorous

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tease:   teasing ·  teased
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English tesen, to comb apart, from Old English tǣsan.

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  1. Formerly also teaze, teize, also dial. tose; from Middle English *tesen, taisen, taysen, also tosen, toosen, from Anglo-Saxon tǣsan, *tāsan, pull, pluck, tease (wool), = Middle Dutch teesen, Dutch teezen = Low German täsen, tösen, pull, drag, = Middle High German zeisen, German dial. (Bavarian) zaisen = Danish tæse, tæsse, tease (wool); cf. Icelandic tæta, pluck, tease (wool) (see tate). Cf. touse, tousle.
  2. Formerly also teaze, teize; from tease, v.
 

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