Talk:tease
There's some sort of cosmetological meaning for "tease" too, having to do with hair. I don't know what it means, otherwise I'd contribute it myself. — This unsigned comment was added by 216.101.162.42 (talk) at 16:46 2 February 2009.
Emerging new sense[edit]
"The game was first teased before the Spike Video Game Awards on November 29, 2011" — i.e. to have a teaser shown. Equinox ◑ 09:44, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
- I can still only find this CFI-attestably in some dodgy Google Books that are evidently based on regurgitated bits of Wikipedia. Equinox ◑ 13:38, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
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"An exotic dancer; a stripper." One might act like a tease, but you can't say "she used to work as a tease", as far as I know. (Also the parent sense is rather inappropriate: not sure we should use "cock tease" as part of a formal dictionary definition.) Equinox ◑ 15:54, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
- It looks to me like it is more used for the performance rather than the performer. I added some cites to the citations page. Kiwima (talk) 21:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 21:31, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
Etymology[edit]
any ref for the etymology as it is ? Meanings 1-3 seem OK with it, but meanings 4-8 are quite different and actually more consistent with anglo-norman (i.e., old french) tison. 2023. In Anglo-Norman Dictionary (AND2 Online Edition). Aberystwyth University. Retrieved 10 April 2023. It still exist in modern french tison (firebrand) and tisonner which litterally translate to poke and to tease, i.e. meanings 4-8.
Looks more like two vers, different but somewhat similar and sounding alike, one from aold german and one from anglo-norman, got merged. 2A01:E0A:1DC:4570:D8B1:B327:4483:149E 17:42, 10 April 2023 (UTC)