TEASING Synonyms

• a framework of ribs

• the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances

• light teasing repartee

• be silly or tease one another

• contemptuous laughter

• the act of deriding or treating with contempt

• showing your contempt by derision

• abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule

• characterized by jokes and good humor

• abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule

• playfully vexing (especially by ridicule)

• showing your contempt by derision

• aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing

• abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule

• an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

• be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics

• shift from one side of the ship to the other

• be silly or tease one another

• a young person of either sex

• English dramatist (1558-1594)

• soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat

• a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age

• young goat

• tell false information to for fun

• be silly or tease one another

• language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate

• the act of deriding or treating with contempt

• subject to laughter or ridicule

• someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)

• sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere

• a native or resident of Wisconsin

• annoy persistently

• persuade through constant efforts

• anything that serves as an enticement

• something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• lure, entice, or entrap with bait

• attack with dogs or set dogs upon

• annoy persistently

• surround so as to force to give up

• general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate

• a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine

• a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly

• insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis

• a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

• annoy persistently

• tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information

• one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes

• a card certifying the identity of the bearer

• a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures)

• thin cardboard, usually rectangular

• a witty amusing person who makes jokes

• a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement

• a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited

• (golf) a record of scores (as in golf)

• a list of dishes available at a restaurant

• (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat

• a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities

• separate the fibers of

• ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor

• the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)

• lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached

• major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters

• collecting the charges upon delivery

• payable by the recipient on delivery

• fool or hoax

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men

• talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions