meaning of teasels

1. To comb or card, as wool or flax.
2.
To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.
3.
To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.
4.
To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague.
5.
One who teases or plagues.
6.
the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously especially by ridicule; provoking someone with persistent annoyances; "he ignored their teases"; "his ribbing was gentle but ">persistent"


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