subs. (pugilists’).—1. A disturbing blow. TO TEASE (or TEAZE) = to flog (GROSE and VAUX); TO NAP THE TEAZE = to be flogged.
1832. P. EGAN, Book of Sports, xiii. 204. The latter planted a TEAZER on Sam’s mouth, which produced the claret in streams.
2. (colloquial).—Anything difficult or perplexing.
1823. BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v. TEAZER—a hit on some queer point, as on the tip of the nose. Also, 1st. A summons to little chancery. 2nd. A talking fellow who haunts another, 3rd. An old horse belonging to a breeding-stud—‘though devoid of fun himself, he is the cause of it in others.’
1857. G. A. LAWRENCE, Guy Livingstone, ix. The third is a TEASER—an ugly black bullfinch with a ditch on the landing side.
TEASER OF THE CATGUT. See CATGUT-SCRAPER.
