teasel

English

plant

dried flower head

Alternative forms

• teasle, teazel, teazle (archaic)
• tazel (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English tasel, tesel, from Old English tǣsel, tǣsl, from Proto-West Germanic *taisilu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːzəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːzəl

Noun

teasel (plural teasels)

1. Any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus.
2. The dried fruiting head of the fuller's teasel, Dipsacus sativa, used for teasing or carding cloth.
3. Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.

Derived terms

• teaseler
• teasel gourd (Cucumis dipsaceus)
• teasellike
• wild teasel

Translations

plant

• Bulgarian: лугачка f (lugačka)
• Catalan: cardó m
• Czech: štětka (cs) f
• Dutch: kaardenbol (nl) m
• Finnish: karstaohdake (fi)
• French: cardère (fr) f
• German: Karde (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: δίψακος m (dípsakos), κνάφος m (knáphos)

• Irish: liost m
• Kazakh: қожакендір (qojakendır)
• Macedonian: че́шленка f (čéšlenka)
• Middle English: tasel
• Norman: tcheurdron à chorchi m (Jersey), piègne à chorchi f (Jersey)
• Old English: tǣsl f
• Polish: szczeć (pl) f
• Russian: ворся́нка (ru) f (vorsjánka)
• Sicilian: carduni m
• Welsh: cribau'r pannwr f pl, llysiau'r pannwr m pl, llysiau'r cribwr m, llysiau'r cribau m, teilai mawr m

flower head

• Catalan: cardet m
• Middle English: tasel
• Welsh: cribau'r pannwr f pl

Verb

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

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

Anagrams

• elates, saltee, slatee, steale, stelae, stelæ, teasle