| 词组 | tease |
| 释义 | tease /tiːz/ verb to laugh at someone and make jokes in order to have fun by embarrassing them, either in a friendly way or in an unkind wayadverbstease sb gently Sometimes, Amelia would tease him gently and pretend that she was angry with him.tease sb mercilessly (=tease someone a lot) Her friends used to tease her mercilessly about her hair.be always teasing sb (=tease someone often) His wife was always teasing him because he was terrible at spelling.be only teasing Don’t get upset. I was only teasing.prepositionstease sb about sth My sister used to tease me about my weight.THESAURUS: tease make fun of sb/sth to tease someone, especially in an unkind way, by laughing at something they do and making them seem stupid: The boys at school used to make fun of me and call me names. | Everyone made fun of the way our Maths teacher walked. taunt to tease someone in a very unpleasant way that shows you do not respect them, in order to make them angry or upset: In the end he hit the man for taunting him about his wife. | The other prisoners taunted him until he couldn’t bear it any more. pull sb’s leg informal to tease someone in a friendly way, by trying to make them think something is true when it is not: I’m not really 18. I was only pulling your leg. | I don’t believe you! You’re pulling my leg! wind sb up BrE informal to deliberately say something to someone, in order to see if they become annoyed or worried: Are you trying to wind me up? | My friends are always winding me up about it. take the mickey (out of sb) BrE informal to make someone look silly, often in a friendly way, for example by copying them or saying something that you do not really mean about them: I don’t speak like that – stop taking the mickey! | “You’re a genius, we all know that!” “Are you taking the mickey out of me?” |
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