Talk:tease

There's some sort of cosmetological meaning for "tease" too, having to do with hair. I don't know what it means, otherwise I'd contribute it myself.
 * Added. SemperBlotto 17:19, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Emerging new sense
"The game was first teased before the Spike Video Game Awards on November 29, 2011" &mdash; i.e. to have a teaser shown. Equinox ◑ 09:44, 12 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I can still only find this CFI-attestably in some dodgy Google Books that are evidently based on regurgitated bits of Wikipedia. Equinox ◑ 13:38, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

RFV discussion: August–September 2018
"An exotic dancer; a stripper." One might act like a tease, but you can't say "she used to work as a tease", as far as I know. (Also the parent sense is rather inappropriate: not sure we should use "cock tease" as part of a formal dictionary definition.) Equinox ◑ 15:54, 20 August 2018 (UTC)


 * It looks to me like it is more used for the performance rather than the performer. I added some cites to the citations page. Kiwima (talk) 21:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 21:31, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

Etymology
any ref for the etymology as it is ? Meanings 1-3 seem OK with it, but meanings 4-8 are quite different and actually more consistent with anglo-norman (i.e., old french) [https://anglo-norman.net/entry/tison tison. 2023. In Anglo-Norman Dictionary (AND2 Online Edition). Aberystwyth University. Retrieved 10 April 2023]. It still exist in modern french tison (firebrand) and tisonner which litterally translate to poke and to tease, i.e. meanings 4-8.

Looks more like two vers, different but somewhat similar and sounding alike, one from aold german and one from anglo-norman, got merged. 2A01:E0A:1DC:4570:D8B1:B327:4483:149E 17:42, 10 April 2023 (UTC)