What is the meaning of teasing?

noun

• The act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances.
  • usage: "he ignored their teases"; "his ribbing was gentle but persistent"
  • synonyms: tease, ribbing, tantalization
• Playful vexation.
  • usage: "the parody was just a form of teasing"
• The act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb.
  • synonyms: comb-out

verb

• Annoy persistently.
  • usage: "The children teased the boy because of his stammer"
  • synonyms: tease, badger, pester, bug, beleaguer
• Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
  • usage: "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"
  • synonyms: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride
• To arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them.
  • usage: "The advertisement is intended to tease the customers"; "She has a way of teasing men with her flirtatious behavior"
  • synonyms: tease
• Tear into pieces.
  • usage: "tease tissue for microscopic examinations"
  • synonyms: tease
• Raise the nap of (fabrics.
  • synonyms: tease
• Disentangle and raise the fibers of.
  • usage: "tease wool"
  • synonyms: tease, tease apart, loosen
• Separate the fibers of.
  • usage: "tease wool"
  • synonyms: tease, card
• Mock or make fun of playfully.
  • usage: "the flirting man teased the young woman"
  • synonyms: tease
• Ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect.
  • synonyms: tease, fluff

adjective

• Playfully vexing (especially by ridicule. ) "his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air- Lawrence Durrell
  • synonyms: mocking, quizzical
• Arousing sexual desire without intending to satisfy it.
  • usage: "her lazy teasing smile"
• Causing irritation or annoyance.
  • usage: "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"
  • synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, vexatious, vexing