Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete spelling of tease.

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  • verb Alternative spelling of tease.

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Examples

  • March 30, 2008 at 2:01 pm ah, dont teaze teh bunnee . we awl lukked funnee den.

    Easter Bunneh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • I went off the deck the sailors began to teaze it — some loved to see its tears and hear it cry; others hated its snotty nose; one who hurt it, being checked by the negro that took care of it, told the slave he was very fond of his country-woman, and asked him if he should not like her for a wife?

    Essays 2007

  • And does he teaze you, my Lucy, on this subject, with reminding you of your young partiality for Captain Duncan, in order to make good his assertion of the susceptibility of us all?

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • It was indeed giving him encouragement enough, that I answered him by pen and ink; and he pre-sumed enough upon it, or he had never dared to teaze me for a promise, as he did for months before I made him one.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • And, do you think, that Clementina and the Count of Belvedere, a year or two hence I have no fear of the matter; if they do not teaze, torment, oppose her.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • But as the honest man says, so say I; I b b 2 will not teaze you.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • But I see it vexes you; and ill-natured folks love to teaze, you know.

    Pamela 2006

  • Forgive me, ray dear; this is the only point in which you and I have differed And why have I In the main so patiently suffered this difference, and not tried to teaze you out of it?

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • In the final stanza, the "Attic shape" becomes a "fair attitude," a "silent form" that "dost teaze [sic] us out of thought/As doth eternity!"

    The Timeless in Its Time: Engaging Students in a Close-reading and Discussion of the Historical Contexts of 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' 2003

  • The assiduities of these good people teaze me beyond bearing.

    She Stoops to Conquer 2004

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