Teasing is the act of playfully disturbing another person, either with words or with actions. In mild cases, and especially when it is reciprocal, it is essentially a form of play (friendly teasing). However, teasing can be also used as painful harassment (cruel teasing). In extreme cases it may escalate to real violence, and may even result in abuse meeting the legal definition of child abuse. Play might be described as unrestrained, amusing interaction with people, animals, or things, often in the context of learning. ... Look up cruelty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Child abuse is the physical or psychological maltreatment of a child by an adult often synonymous with the term child maltreatment or the term child abuse and neglect. ...

One may also tease an animal. Some animals, such as a cat or dog, may recognize and enjoy this as playing. Phyla Subregnum Parazoa Porifera (sponges) Subregnum Agnotozoa Placozoa (trichoplax) Orthonectida (orthonectids) Rhombozoa (dicyemids) Subregnum Eumetazoa Radiata (unranked) (radial symmetry) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anemones) Bilateria (unranked) (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Orthonectida (parasitic to flatworms, echinoderms, etc. ... Trinomial name Felis silvestris catus (Linnaeus, 1758) The cat, also called the domestic cat or house cat, is a small feline carnivorous mammal of the subspecies Felis silvestris catus. ... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris (Linnaeus, 1758) Puppy redirects here. ...

Teasing may also be pretending to give the other something which the other desires, or giving it very slowly. This is usually done by arousing curiosity or desire and may not actually involve actual intent to satisfy or disclose. This is also called "tantalizing", after the story of Tantalus. In Greek mythology Tantalus (Greek Τάνταλος) was a son of Zeus and the nymph Plouto (riches), not to be confused with the god of the underworld. ...

Hair can also be "teased," or more correctly, "backcombed." As the name suggests, backcombing involves combing the hair backwards from end to root to intentionally tangle the strands to create volume. Backcombing is a way of combing hair which is used to create volume as well as to create certain hairstyles. ...

"To tease", or to "be a tease" in a sexual sense can mean to pleasure by dress, posture, language and/or other means of flirting to cause another person to become sexually aroused, without any intent to proceed further — usually to the frustration of the person teased. However, such saucy behavior may sometimes be an intended prelude to a more serious engagement, an ambiguity that may lead to uncomfortable situations. In a more physical sense, it can also mean slowly pleasuring someone while holding off bringing them to orgasm. It is a playful activity of arousing pleasure from another through physical contact in order to win favor, such as from Shrek in which a dragon wraps a donkey in her tail and strokes him. Flirting is a form of human interaction, usually expressing a sexual or romantic interest in the other person. ... Stimulation is the irritating action of various agents (stimuli) on muscles, nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which activity is evoked; especially, the nervous impulse produced by various agents on nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which the part connected with the nerve is thrown into a state... An orgasm (from Greek orgasmós, from orgán - to swell, be lustful), also known as a sexual climax, is a pleasurable physical, psychological or emotional response to prolonged sexual stimulation. ... Shrek is a computer-animated film adaptation of William Steigs 1990 fairy tale picture-book of the same name. ...

Colloquial Slang

To "Tease it", "Tease", or "Teasing" is often used as a verb when referring to the use of Marijuana.

Can also be used as a Noun to mean Cannabis. "Tease"

See also

• brain teaser
• bullying
• striptease

A Brain teaser is a form of puzzle that involves a lot of thinking (mental/cognitive activity). ... A bully is an individual who tends to torment others, either through verbal harassment or physical assaults, or through more subtle methods of coercion. ... A striptease dancer performing. ...

External links

• The Art of the Tease