teasesome
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]teasesome (comparative more teasesome, superlative most teasesome)
- (rare) Characterised or marked by teasing
- 1916, The Westminster, volume 29, page 25:
- Not that they were a bad-hearted crowd, only teasesome, and delightin' to keep any one harassed if they could.
- 1918, School & Society, volume 7, page 230:
- […] under proper control and with an intelligent system of recess-and-noon-period-recreation the child can have uncounted good times, while with too stern a discipline or too lax a facile subjection of the teasesome and bully types and too little attention to promoting harmonious play, the grade school years may be made an unpleasant period of life.