[f. TEASE v.1 + -ING2.] That teases; pettily irritating, annoying, or vexatious.
1694. Addison, Ovid’s Met., II. Coronis, 19. And by a thousand teizing questions drew The important secret from him.
1800. Med. Jrnl., IV. 311. She complains of a teazing cough.
1847. Helps, Friends in C., I. iii. 34 This is better than to be the sport of a teasing hope without reason.
Hence Teasingly adv., in a teasing manner.
1754. Richardson, Grandison (1781), IV. xxviii. 206. You are disposed to be teazingly facetious.
1882. Edna Lyall, Donovan, I. xiii. 312. ‘I know what the Jackal would wish for,’ said Bertie, teazingly, ‘he’d wish for jam at tea; wishing’s awful bosh, Jackie, you mustn’t be such a baby.’
1906. Athenæum, 17 March, 321/3. He never becomes teasingly minute.
