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teasesome

teasesome adjective: characterised or marked by teasing.

Adjective

teasesome (comparative more teasesome, superlative most teasesome)

  1. (rare) Characterised or marked by teasing
    • Not that they were a bad-hearted crowd, only teasesome, and delightin' to keep any one harassed if they could.1916, The Westminster, volume 29, page 25
    • […] under proper control and with an intelligent system of recess-and-noon-period-recreation the child can have uncounted good times, while with too stern a discipline or too lax a facile subjection of the teasesome and bully types and too little attention to promoting harmonious play, the grade...1918, School & Society, volume 7, page 230

Forms of teasesome

comparativemore teasesome
superlativemost teasesome

Origin of teasesome

From tease + -some.

Questions about teasesome

What does teasesome mean?
Teasesome means characterised or marked by teasing.
What part of speech is teasesome?
Teasesome is an adjective.

Words near teasesome in the dictionary

  1. teaser rates
  2. teasers
  3. teases
  4. teases apart
  5. teases out
  6. teasesome
  7. teasest
  8. teaset
  9. teaseth
  10. teasets
  11. teashade

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