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teasingnoun the act of making unwelcome intrusions upon anotherstop that teasing before you make the baby cry aggravation, annoyance, bedevilment, botheration, bothering, bugging, disturbance, harassment, harrying, importunity, pestering, vexation aggro(British), molestation, offense(or offence), persecution, provocation, torment, torturedevilment, devilry, mischief teasingverbpresent participle of teaseto make fun of in a good-natured waylikes to tease her twin brother about his seemingly endless string of girlfriends chaffing, jiving, joking, joshing, kidding, rallying, razzing, ribbing, riding, roasting banteringfooling, funning, stringing alongjesting, quipping, wisecrackinggagging, japing, jollying, yukking(or yucking, slang) goofing on(slang), taking the mickey out of(British) to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insultsgrew up being teased because his parents were hog farmers baiting, hassling, hazing, heckling, needling, riding, taunting deriding, gibing(or jibing), jeering, mocking, ridiculingannoying, bothering, bugging, burning (up), chafing, fretting, frosting, galling, getting, gnawing (at), grating, griping, hacking (off), hagriding, irking, irritating, itching, nagging, narking(British), nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting out, rasping, riling, ruffling, spiting, troubling, vexingaggravating, exasperating, goading, testing, tryingaggrieving, agitating, bedeviling, beleaguering, discomforting, disturbing, perturbingbadgering, dogging, houndingbrowbeating, bullying, hectoringharassing, harrying, persecuting, plaguing, terrorizing, tormenting, torturing making game of, picking on |