teaser
English
/ˈtizɚ/
noun
Definitions
- One who teases or pokes fun.
- (textile treatment) A person or thing that teases.
- (marketing) A preview or part of a product released in preparation of its main advertising, typically a short film, song or quote.
- (UK) A kind of gull, the jaeger.
- (electrical) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open.
- The stoker of a glassworks furnace.
- (theatre) A short horizontal curtain used to mask the flies and frame the top of the inner stage opening, adjustable to the desired height.
Etymology
Suf from English tease.
Origin
English
tease
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Distribution of cognates by language
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Cognates and derived terms
- brain English
- brainteaser English
- clit tease English
- cock English
- cock tease English
- cocktease English
- cockteaser English
- prick English
- prickteaser English
- re-tease English
- striptease English
- teasable English
- tease English
- teasesome English
- teasest English
- teaseth English
- untease English
- Teaser German
- тизер Russian
- tesen Middle English