Clues for the word "TEASE"
We've had 219 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 907 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on April 08, 2025.
Definition of tease
- v. t. - To comb or card, as wool or flax.
- v. t. - To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.
- v. t. - To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.
- v. t. - To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague.
- n. - One who teases or plagues.
Referring Clues
- Razz
- Flirt
- Rib
- Needle
- Poke fun at
- Fluff up
- Bait, say
- Josh
- Make one's hair stand on end?
- Make fun of
- Coquette
- Hardly the prim sort
- Flirt with
- Fluff up, as hair
- Chaff
- Lolita, e.g.
- Pick on
- Ride
- Make frizzy
- Bait
- Kid
- Pull one's leg
- Fluff, in a way
- Get on
- Play with
- Twit
- Tempt
- Bedevil
- Comb the "wrong" way
- Build a beehive?
- Mock
- Be a coquette
- Badger
- Put on a hair-raising display?
- Try to rile
- Bug
- Provoke
- Promo piece
- Movie highlight
- Hairdresser's offering
- Irritate mischievously
- Vamp
- Comb backwards
- Play the coquette
- Take a playful poke at
- Do a hair-raising job?
- Make frizzy, as hair
- Do a hair-raising task?
- Rag
- Give body to, as hair
- Tantalize
- Do a bang-up job on?
- Rub it in, say
- Have fun with
- Kid around with
- Kid with
- Engage in badinage
- Rib at a roast
- Do a do
- Leave wanting more
- Rib or roast
- Annoying one
- Say "Nyah, nyah!" to
- Irritate
- Be hair-raising?
- Backcomb
- Vex
- Display poor sportsmanship
- Do hair-raising work?
- Try to get one's goat
- Poke fun at, on the playground
- Act the coquette
- Fluff, as bangs
- Add body to a do
- Display poor sportsmanship, in a way
- Fluff hair
- Kid a kid
- Sing "nyah-nyah" to
- Taunt
- Fluff bangs
- "Coming up next" commercial, e.g.
- Playful flirt
- Purposely stay just out of reach
- Playful tormentor
- Comb backward
- Show just a little bit of leg, say
- Add body to hair
- Plump a hairdo
- Lead on
- Back-comb
- Flirtatious one
- Mock in the schoolyard
- One likely to get men's attention
- Purposely keep just out of reach
- Josh with
- Jest with
- Sing "nyah-nyah" to
- Say "Nyah, nyah!" to
- Advertiser's ploy
- Torment
- Poke fun
- Harass
- Provoke jokingly
- Provoke, perhaps
- Style, as hair into a bouffant
- Partial preview, often
- Call names
- Pester
- Make sport of
- Rival of 13-Across
- Badger in jest
- Flirty one
- Joke around with
- Call playful names, say
- Mimic Mae West
- Offer with no intention of giving, say
- Play pranks
- Annoy persistently
- Dangle a carrot, say
- Kid or rib
- Work on hair, maybe
- Needle or rib
- Back-comb hair
- Say "nyah, nyah," say
- Ridicule
- Give a hard time to
- Gently mock
- Style, in a way
- Heckle
- Comb, in a way
- Bring up an embarrassing story about, say
- Comb the wrong way
- Fluff, as hair
- Mess with, as hair or siblings
- Flirty sort
- Josh or rib
- Annoy
- Mock playfully
- Pick on playfully
- Toy with
- Annoy playfully
- Give a "big hair" look to
- Bullyrag
- Say "Nyah nyah!" to
- Homophone of the puzzle's theme
- Annoy someone on purpose
- Tantalise
- Vex or annoy
- DeBarge "Stop! Don't ___ Me"
- Sean Paul "Don't ___ Me"
- Scorpions "___ Me Please Me"
- Hint of other song during jam
- Danity Kane 'Strip ___'
- L.A. Guns "Hollywood ___"
- Twit - flirt
- Finish breakfast at leisure, then lead on
- Guy drinks with earl
- Vex in quite a serious way
- Do a provocative act, as in an informal sort of shirt
- Bait for badger
- Meal with ends of spare rib
- To rib
- Flirty person
- Wind up with English meals
- Irritate playfully
- Drinks to the closure of "Spare Rib"
- Wind up with letters read aloud
- Rib, taunt
- Mock, during recess
- Playfully pester
- Bring discontent to
- Rib playfully
- Make fun of or torment
- Time to start to relax, kid
- Guy taking drug after drinks
- Make fun of a type of dance the home counties follow
- Wind up with drinks at some point
- Time to comfort kid
- Twit supports broadcast
- Time to let up being a wind-up merchant
- Guy drinks last of wine
- Poke fun at head of eating-house following meals
- Rib, thematic if left
- Flirt with, perhaps
- Playfully taunt
- See 6
- Needle verbally
- Provoke playfully
- The lassie is not even a flirt
- Ridicule and torment
- Frustratingly promise central heating with no problem
- Drinks with English guy
- Pull a pigtail, perhaps
- Tantalise with drinks at closing time
- Hector
- Ride, so to speak
- Trifle with
- Torment playfully
- Annoy affectionately
- What movie trailers do
- Act coquettish to
- Show a short trailer for
- Mock, in a way
- Needle mischievously
- Lightly roast
- Play an April Fool's joke on, say
- “Strip ___” (Carl Hiaasen novel)
- What good movie trailers do
- Make one's hair stand on end?
- Build a beehive?
- Make blush, maybe
- Comb toward the scalp
- A bit of (badger?) baiting
- Rag on
- Flirt with, say
- Be a pest, in a way
- Give hints about, but not more
- Pick on, in a way
- Make big bangs?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 08, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 06, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 06, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - January 21, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 19, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 16, 2025
- LA Times - January 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 05, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 05, 2025
- USA Today - January 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 26, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 25, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 18, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 16, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 14, 2024
- Daily American - December 09, 2024
- USA Today - December 02, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 21, 2024
- Family Time - November 18, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 12, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 09, 2024
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