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teasesome en · ADJ

Etymology

From tease + -some.

Meanings

1. (rare) Characterised or marked by teasing
   • […] 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 school years may be made an unpleasant period of life. 1918, School & Society, volume 7, page 230:
   • 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:

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