teasel

English

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plant

dried flower head

Alternative forms

• teazle, teasle, tassel

Etymology

From Middle English tesel, tasil, tasel, tosel, from Old English tǣsel, tǣsl (“to tease”), from Proto-Germanic *taisilō, *taislō (“thistle”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to separate, divide”). Cognate with Scots tasil, tassill (“teasel”), German Zeisel (“thistle, teasel”). Related to tease.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːzəl

Noun

teasel (plural teasels)

1. Any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus.
2. The dried flower head of the fuller's teasel, Dipsacus fullonum, used for teasing or carding cloth.

Translations

plant

• Czech: štětka (cs) f
• Dutch: distel (nl) m and f, kaardebol (nl) m
• French: cardère (fr) f
• German: Karde (de) f

• Jèrriais: tcheurdron à chorchi m, piègne à chorchi f
• Macedonian: чешленка (mk) (čéšlenka) f
• Polish: szczeć (pl) f

flower head

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• Russian: ворсянка (vors'ánka) f

Verb

teasel (third-person singular simple present teasels, present participle teaselling or teaseling, simple past and past participle teaselled or teaseled)

1. To raise the nap on cloth; to tease; to card.

Anagrams

• elates
• stelae
• teasle