Reverse Dictionary: TEASE

ADJECTIVES
1806 — PESTEROUS given to teasing, pestering, mischievous → Amer. dial.
1869 — DIDDLECOME sorely teased or vexed → Eng. dial.
1893 — HECKLING teasing, provoking to anger → Sc.
1898 — CADDLING teasing, troublesome, worrying, annoying → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1901 — TAISEY → TEASY → TEAZY teasing, troublesome → Eng. dial.
1905 — HALLOCKING teasing, bullying; boisterous, rough, rude → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1920 — AT IT teasing, provoking → sl.
1921 — SANKLIN teasing, provoking → Sc.

ADVERBS
1638 — TWITTINGLY teasingly, tauntingly; by way of censure or reproach, esp. of a light or good-humoured kind 

NOUNS
1833 — RUNNING teasing or joking at another’s expense; a ribbing → US colloq.
1839 — CODDING teasing, mischief, frolicking, roguery, trickery → Sc. & Amer. dial.
.M19 — RAG teasing, abuse, talk → sl.
1866 — TAISLE a teasing or vexing → Sc.
1883 — RIGGING a teasing; a scolding → Amer. dial.
..L19 — JOLLY light-hearted teasing, bantering; often as ‘the jolly’ → US sl.
..L19 — SAUCEPAN LID a tease; a ‘leg-pull’ → rhyming sl. for ‘kid’
1900 — FASHING a teasing or perplexing → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
..20C — RAGGING teasing, an act of teasing → sl.
1964 — KIDDOLOGY → KIDOLOGY a notional science of teasing or deceiving → Brit. sl.
1967 — SOUND a teasing, a taunt; an insult → US sl.
1992 — LIP MUSIC teasing, bragging, boasting → US sl.

NOUNS, PERSON
1611 — BAITER a tease, a tormenter
1611 — GILL-FLIRT → GILL-FLURT a tease, a flirt, a wanton; a light or loose woman
1775 — HANNIER a teasing, cross person → Eng. dial. obs.
..19C — TEELYTOON a teasing, fretful, wearisome child → Eng. dial.
1848 — WORRIT a person who teases or pesters → Eng. dial.
.M19 — CODDER a teaser, a hoaxer → sl.
1855 — VEAGUE a teasing child → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1871 — MAWMOOIN a teasing, playful youth or girl; literally ‘mow the moon’ → Eng. dial.
1887 — LEG-PULLER a person who teases or mocks another; one who plays a trick or hoax
1898 — BELTER-WERRITS a teasing child → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
..L19 — BADGERER a person who teases or badgers another
1900 — FEAGUE a teasing, tiresome child → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — RAGGARD a tease; an impatient person → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — TAGUE a tease → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1923 — WISECRACKER a person who often teases or jokes; one who is obnoxiously self-assertive and arrogant → Amer. sl.
1930 — PUT-ON ARTIST a tease, a hoaxer → US sl.
1975 — BALL-BREAKER a person who likes to tease → sl.
1975 — MINDFUCK a person who teases, deceives, or plays with someone’s mind; one who manipulates someone to think and act as one wishes → US students’ sl. 
1980 — BUSTER a tease → sl.
1980 — SKAG a tease → sl.
1989 — BALL BUSTER a girl who is a tease → US students’ sl. (Bk.)

VERBS
1523 — HARE to tease, to worry; to harass → obs.
1530 — TWIT IN THE TEETH to tease, to taunt; to censure, reproach, or upbraid a person →obs.
.M17 — GIVE OLD HARRY to tease, to scold, to play the devil, to make mischief → sl.
1671 — WORRY to nag, to pester, to tease 
1673 — RAILLY to tease, to ridicule a person → obs.
1710 — HOLD ONE IN TAMTARY to tease or exasperate by delay; to vex or disquiet one → Sc.
1721 — KAIM SOMEBODY’S HEAD BACKWARDS to tease, to annoy (kaim = comb) → Sc.
1746 — EGG to tease, to annoy, to pester, to irritate; to importune, to find fault continually, to nag → Eng. & Amer. dial.
1746 — HAG → HAGG to tease, to worry; to nag at → Eng. dial.
1749 — TWITTER to tease, to taunt; to reproach or upbraid a person 
1769 — SCORN to tease or rally, esp. a girl about a lover → Sc.
1777 — TET to tease, to provoke → Eng. dial. obs.
1781 — CADDLE to tease, to worry, to trouble, to disturb, to annoy → Eng. dial.
1781 — TEW to tease, to annoy. to vex; to pester; to urge, to persuade → Eng. dial.
1782 — LUGGER to tease → obs.
1786 — PICK AT THE TURKS to tease, to incite to anger; to nag at → Amer. dial.
..L18 — BADGER to tease, to torment; to nag
..L18 — HOAX A QUIZ to tease an eccentric person → sl.
..19C — GIVE SOMEONE THE GUY to tease, to make a fool of someone → sl.
..19C — TEEN to tease, to worry; to trouble, to vex → Sc. & Eng. dial.
..19C — WERRICK to tease, to pester; to worry → Eng. dial.
1806 — RAG to tease, to worry, to vex, to enrage → Eng. dial. & Amer. dial.
1818 — HAISTER → HESTER to tease, to perplex, to pester, to vex, to harass a person → Sc.
1819 — DEVIL to tease, to annoy, to bother, to harass → Amer. dial.
1820 — BULLYRAG to intimidate; to domineer over; to tease → US sl.
1825 — TAISLE to tease, to irritate, to vex → Sc.
1834 — WHITTLE to tease, to pester → Amer. dial.
1839 — TERRIFY to tease, to worry; to importune; to torment, to pain → Eng. dial.
1840 — POKE FUN to tease; to jape; to mock → Amer. sl.
1841 — RIG to tease, to mock, to make fun of → colloq.
1848 — LARK to tease sportively, to make fun of → colloq.
.M19 — COD → CODD to tease, to hoax → sl.
.M19 — HAVE SOMEONE ON to tease, to hoax, to engage someone’s attention with the longer term intention of deceiving them → sl.
.M19 — JOLLY to tease roughly, to chaff, to abuse, to trick → sl.
.M19 — MUCK ABOUT to tease, to irritate → sl.
.M19 — SASS → SASS OUT to tease, to answer back, to be cheeky → US sl.
1851 — TEDDER to tease, to perplex → Eng. dial.
1851 — WORRIT to cause worry or vexation; to tease, to nag → Amer. dial.
1852 — JOSH to tease, to hoax, esp. good-naturedly; to joke, to fool → Amer. sl.
1853 — CHIACK → CHYACK to tease, to jeer; to express derision or disapproval of → Aust. & NZ sl. 
1854 — GUY to tease, to mock, to ridicule; to taunt → Amer. sl.
1860 — HERRY to tease, to harass, to worry, to bother; to overdo, to urge, to impel → Eng. dial.
1860 — PLAY OLD HARRY to make mischief, to tease or scold → sl.
1862 — SAUCE to tease, to be cheeky; to be impertinent to; to answer impudently → Eng. dial.
1868 — NAGGER to tease, to complain continually; to find fault with → Eng. dial.
1872 — CHAFF to tease, to make fun of; to trick, to deceive → Amer. dial.
1874 — CHI-HIKE → CHI-IKE to tease, to express derision or disapproval of → sl. 
1874 — TAN to tease, to worry; to harp on one string → Eng. dial.
1880 — BULLRAG to intimidate; to domineer over; to tease → US sl.
1881 — NEEDLE to tease maliciously, to deliberately and persistently annoy someone → sl.
1882 — POKE BORAK AT to tease, to make fun of → Aust. & NZ sl.
1883 — RIG to tease, to mock, to vex → Amer. dial.
1884 — PICK AT WEST POINT to tease, to incite to anger; to nag at → Amer. dial.
1887 — GIVE GYP to tease, to mock → orig. Eng. dial.
1887 — GREEN ON → GREEN OUT to tease, to make a fool of; to annoy with practical jokes; to outwit → Amer. dial.
1888 — GAMMON to tease amicably, to joke, to sport, to play → Eng. dial.
1888 — PULL SOMEONE’S LEG to tease someone; to make fun of someone → UK sl.
1889 — SPOOF to tease, to fool; to hoax → sl.
1890 — ROT to tease, to mock; to make fun of someone or something → Brit. sl.
1891 — BUFFALO to tease, to confuse, to bamboozle → Amer. dial.
1894 — FAN to tease, to banter; to vex, to annoy → Eng. dial.
1896 — KNOCK SAUCEPANS OUT OF ONE to tease, to give one a bad time → Ireland
1896 — MIRACLE to tease, to torment, to hurt → Sc.  
1896 — PLAY HORSE WITH to tease, to ridicule, to annoy, to make merry with → US sl.
1898 — BAFFLE to tease, to insult, to bully → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — BANTER to tease, to taunt → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1899 — DING to tease, to worry, to pester, to nag → Amer. dial.
1899 — RAWHIDE to tease, to rib, to haze → Amer. dial.
..L19 — FOOL AROUND to tease → sl.
..L19 — GAFF to tease → US sl.
..L19 — TAFFY to tease → US sl.
1900 — GAFFLE to tease; to incommode, to encumber → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — RAG ON to tease, to banter, to harass, to annoy; to engage in teasing → Amer. sl.
1901 — HORSE to tease, to mock, to make fun of someone or something → US sl.
1901 — POKE MULLOCK AT to tease, to make fun of → Aust. sl.
1905 — HAGGLE to tease, to worry, to harass; to over-work, to fatigue, to tire out → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — HAKE to tease, to worry, to importune; to pester or worry with questions, etc.; to persecute → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — HALLOCK to tease, to worry, to bully → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — MAG to tease, to worry incessantly → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — MAGGLE to tease, to worry → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — MAWK to tease, to baffle, to torment → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — NAIST to tease; to worry; to remind one to do something disagreeable → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — PECK to tease; to taunt; to worry, to annoy; to find fault with; to domineer over → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — RAIL to tease; to provoke to anger → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — TAG to tease, to torment → Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
1905 — TAR → TARR to tease, to excite to anger or violence → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — THIG to tease, to entice; to entreat → Sc. (Bk.)
1906 — JADE to tease, to tantalize → Amer. dial.
1908 — AG → AGG to irritate by teasing → Sc.
1908 — HACK to tease, to embarrass, to annoy, to disconcert → Amer. dial.
1913 — DRAG to tease; to twit → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1913 — MOLLYHAWK to tease, to abuse → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1919 — DEVILMENT to tease → Amer. dial.
1920 — LEAD DOWN THE GARDEN PATH → LEAD UP THE GARDEN PATH to tease, to trick, to deceive deliberately → sl.
1920 — TAKE THE MICK OUT OF to tease → sl.
1920 — TAKE THE MICKEY BLISS to tease → rhyming sl. for ‘take the piss’
1921 — RAZZ to tease, to mock; to make fun of someone or something → sl., orig. US
1923 — GREEN to tease, to make a fool of; to annoy with practical jokes; to outwit → Amer. dial.
1927 — JAZZ to tease → Amer. dial.
1928 — HAWK to tease, to jeer with intent to provoke; to exasperate; to discomfit → Amer. dial.
1928 — JIVE to tease, to put someone on; to mislead, to con; to pretend → Amer. dial.
1930 — HIGH-GYVE → HIGH JIVE to tease, to provoke → US sl.
1930 — PRAT to tease physically; to play sexually hard to get →African-American sl.
1930 — RIB to tease, to mock; to make fun of someone or something → sl., orig. US
1932 — SIGNIFY to engage in teasing, goading, and ritualist insults → US sl.
1934 — RANK to tease a person; to annoy, to harass; to ridicule → Amer. dial.
1934 — SHIT to tease, to attempt to deceive or mislead → sl.
1935 — TAKE THE MICHAEL (OUT OF) to tease, to mock; to make fun of someone or something → sl., chiefly Brit.
1935 — TAKE THE MICKEY (OUT OF) → TAKE THE MICKY (OUT OF) to tease, to mock; to make fun of someone or something → sl., chiefly Brit.
1935 — TAKE THE MIKE (OUT OF) to tease, to mock; to make fun of someone or something → sl., chiefly Brit.
1936 — GIVE A PERSON THE BUSINESS to tease, to mock 
1940 — TAKE A PIECE OUT OF to tease → Aust. sl.
1941 — CHECK to tease, to taunt → Amer. dial.
1941 — JOREE to tease, to make fun of → Amer. dial.
1945 — TAKE THE PISS → TAKE THE PISS OUT OF to tease, to mock; to make fun of someone or something → Brit. sl.
1946 — MOMMOCK → MUMMICK to tease, to harass, to annoy, to torment, to impose on → Amer. dial.
1947 — GIVE THE RIBSTEAK to tease, to kid, to hoax, to joke with → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1947 — GIVE THE ROAST BEEF RARE to tease, to kid, to hoax, to joke with → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1947 — SMOKE to tease, to kid, to hoax, to joke with → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1947 — WHOOF → WOOF to tease, to kid, to hoax, to joke with → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1950 — HACK OFF to tease, to joke → US sl.
1950 — HACK ABOUT to tease, to joke → US sl.
1952 — PUT ONE UNDER HACK to tease, to embarrass → Amer. dial.
1958 — GET SOMEONE AT IT to tease, to mock, to make fun of someone or something → sl.
1958 — PUT ON to tease; to joke with ; to deceive for one’s own gain
1959 — HETCHEL to tease, to call to account; to bother, to annoy; to nag → Amer. dial.
1959 — SOUND to tease someone; to flirt; to insult someone in a semi-formal quasi-friendly competition → US sl.
1960 — BATSHIT to tease; to confuse with false information → US sl.
1960 — JACK AROUND to tease → US students’ sl.
1960 — JACK OFF to tease, to deceive someone, to take advantage of → US sl.
1960 — JEFF to tease, to joke with → US prison sl.
1960 — MOCK OUT to tease → US students’ sl.
1960 — SNAP to tease, to mock → African-American sl.
1961 — BUST ON to tease, to mock; to attack verbally, to criticize or scold 
1961 — JOB to tease, to make fun of →Amer. dial.
1962 — PULL SOMEONE’S CHAIN to tease, to harass; to elicit someone’s anger or annoyance, esp. deliberately → US sl.
1965 — CODDLE to tease →Amer. dial.
1965 — SHEIK to tease; to deceive in a joking way → US sl.
1966 — JACK to tease someone; to lie → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1966 — MESS to tease, to kid around; to fool around → Amer. dial.
1966 — RANK OUT to tease a person; to harass, to insult → Amer. dial.
1967 — BIG-BOY to tease, to bully, to take advantage of → Amer. dial.
1967 — BLOW SMOKE UP ONE’S LEG to tease good-naturedly → Amer. dial.
1968 — OUTHANDLE to tease, to pick on → Amer. dial.
1968 — SHUCK to tease, to fool around; to be deceptive or evasive → Amer. dial.
1970 — BOGART to tease, to bully; to take advantage of → Amer. dial.
1970 — BULLCORN to tease → Amer. dial.
1970 — JAUL → JAWL → JOL to tease, to joke → S. Afr.
1975 — SHUCK to tease → US sl., orig. African-American (Bk.)
1975 — SNAP to laugh; to mock or tease → US sl. (Bk.)
1980 — JERK SOMEONE’S CHAIN to tease, to harass; to anger someone → Amer. sl.
1980 — JERK SOMEONE’S STRING to tease, to harass; to anger someone → Amer. sl.
1980 — MESS WITH to tease, to laugh at, to ridicule → sl.
1980 — PULL SOMEONE’S STRING to tease, to harass; to anger someone → Amer. sl.
1980 — RAMP to tease, to banter, to trick → Black British sl.
1980 — RATTLE SOMEONE’S CHAIN to tease, to harass; to anger someone → Amer. sl.
1980 — RATTLE SOMEONE’S STRING to tease, to harass; to anger someone → Amer. sl.
1980 — YANK SOMEONE’S CHAIN to tease, to harass; to anger someone → Amer. sl.
1980 — YANK SOMEONE’S STRING to tease, to harass; to anger someone → Amer. sl.
1990 — PUSH ONE’S KEY to tease, to irritate one → US prison sl.
1991 — SHUCK AND JIVE to joke, to tease → African-American sl.
1998 — TAKE THE VAMPIRE’S (KISS) to tease someone; to pull someone’s leg → UK rhyming sl. for ‘take the piss’
1999 — PUT THE CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS → SET THE CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS to tease or toy with an opponent or victim, esp. before defeating or destroying them (Bk.)
2000 — GET SOMEONE’S NUT to tease, to ‘wind up’ → sl.
2000 — PULL SOMEONE’S PLONKER to tease someone, to fool someone; to take a liberty with someone → UK sl.
2000 — TAKE THE WIZZ to tease → sl.
2006 — BAG ON to tease someone → US sl. (Bk.)
2009 — NEEDLE to provoke; to tease; to goad → Amer. sl. (Bk.)