teaze

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Verb

teaze (third-person singular simple present teazes, present participle teazing, simple past and past participle teazed)

  1. Dated spelling of tease.
    • 1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. , volume III, London: John Murray, , 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, page 128:
      Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. Mary knew from Charles’s manner of speaking, that he was quite determined on going, and that it would be of no use to teaze him.

Noun

teaze (plural teazes)

  1. Dated spelling of tease.

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