Adam-teasing

English

Noun

Adam-teasing (uncountable)

1. (India, rare) The sexual harassment of men by women.
   • 2002, Lonely Planet Publications, Delhi, 3rd edition, page 52

     There may even be a report on 'Eve-teasing' (sexual harrassment of women), but nothing on Adam-teasing.

   • 2006, Prabhaker Acharya, The Suragi Tree, page 208:

     They ignored men outside the premises of the school, but within its protective precincts they indulged in a bit of Adam-teasing.

   • 2010, Khushwant Singh, City Improbable, page 239:

     Hardly surprising, then, that the first time I witnessed 'Adam teasing' , I nearly whooped with joy. There, trundling along Aurobindo Marg, came an autorickshaw packed with the loudest, most outrageous women I'd ever seen. […] The auto careened to a stop and out they spilled, surrounding some poor hapless chap, wiggling their hips at him, pinching his bum, their eyes flashing, tossing their proud manes, daring him to flirt back.

Antonyms

• Eve-teasing

Translations

sexual harassment of men by women

• Finnish: miesten ahdistelu
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