Synonyms of the word

teasing

• v. present participle of tease.
• n. The act of teasing; making fun of or making light of.

annoying

• adj. Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.
• v. present participle of annoy.

bothersome

• adj. Causing bother or perplexity.

caper

• n. A playful leap or jump.
• n. A jump while dancing.
• n. A prank or practical joke.
• n. (usually in plural) Playful behaviour.
• n. A crime, especially theft, or a narrative about such a crime.
• v. To leap or jump about in a sprightly or playful manner.
• v. To jump as part of a dance.
• v. To engage in playful behaviour.
• n. A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer.
• n. The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled…
• n. A plant of the genus Capparis.
• n. (Scotland) The capercaillie.

comb

• n. A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
• n. A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
• n. A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
• n. A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
• n. An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
• n. The top part of a gun’s stock.
• n. The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between…
• n. (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
• n. A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
• n. A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
• n. The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
• n. The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
• n. One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions.
• n. The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
• n. A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
• n. (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread…
• n. (Algebraic Geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth…
• v. (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb.
• v. (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
• v. (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
• v. (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
• n. (abbreviation) Combination.
• n. Alternative form of combe.

combing

• v. present participle of comb.
• n. The act by which something is combed.
• n. (in the plural) Individual hairs that drop out when the hair is combed.

disagreeable

• adj. Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.
• adj. Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or senses; displeasing; unpleasant.
• n. Something displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.

frolic

• adj. (now rare) Merry, joyous; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.
• adj. (obsolete, rare) Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.
• n. Gaiety; merriment.
• n. A playful antic.
• v. (intransitive) To romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to be merry.

galling

• adj. vexing, humiliating.
• v. present participle of gall.

gambol

• v. (intransitive) To move about playfully; to frolic.
• v. (Britain, West Midlands) To do a forward roll.
• n. An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
• n. An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.

harassment

• n. Persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress.
• n. Deliberate pestering or annoying.
• n. Excessive intimidation.

irritating

• adj. Causing irritation, annoyance or pain.
• adj. Stimulating or exciting a response.
• v. present participle of irritate.

mocking

• v. present participle of mock.
• n. action of the verb to mock.
• adj. derisive or contemptuous.
• adj. teasing or taunting.

molestation

• n. The act of molesting.

nettlesome

• adj. (of a person, thing, situation, etc.) Causing irritation, annoyance, or discomfort; bothersome, irksome.
• adj. (of a task, problem, etc.) Thorny; difficult to deal with, especially due to being complex or tricky.

pesky

• adj. (informal) Annoying, troublesome, irritating.

pestering

• v. present participle of pester.
• n. An act or instance of annoying somebody.

pestiferous

• adj. containing organisms that cause contagious diseases.
• adj. annoying, vexatious.

plaguey

• adj. Alternative spelling of plaguy.

plaguy

• adj. Causing annoyance or bother, irritating.

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

playful

• adj. liking play, prone to play frequently, such as a child or kitten; rather sportive.
• adj. funny, humorous, jesting, frolicsome.
• adj. fun, recreational, not serious.
• adj. experimental.

quizzical

• adj. Questioning or suggesting puzzlement.
• adj. Strange or eccentric.

ribbing

• v. present participle of rib.
• n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to rib.
• n. (countable, uncountable) A rib, or the collective ribs, on an object.
• n. (countable) An instance of teasing.

romp

• v. (intransitive) To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
• v. (transitive, US) (Often used with down) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress.
• v. To win easily.
• v. (slang) To engage in playful or boisterous sex.
• n. A period of boisterous play, a frolic.
• n. (slang) A bout of playful or boisterous sex.
• n. (archaic) A girl who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy.

seductive

• adj. Attractive, alluring, tempting.

tantalization

• n. The act of tantalizing.

tease

• v. To separate the fibres of a fibrous material.
• v. To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
• v. To back-comb.
• v. (transitive) To poke fun at.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
• v. (transitive) To entice, to tempt.
• v. (transitive, informal) To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
• n. One who teases.
• n. A single act of teasing.
• n. A cock tease; an exotic dancer; a stripper.

vexatious

• adj. Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.
• adj. (archaic) Full of trouble or disquiet; harassed; distressed; annoyed; vexed.
• adj. (law, of an action) Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause.
• adj. (law, of a party or entity) In the habit of starting vexatious litigation and therefore liable to have…

vexing

• v. present participle of vex.
• n. vexation.