Meanings
comparative more teasesome · superlative most teasesome
- rareCharacterised or marked by teasing
Not that they were a bad-hearted crowd, only teasesome, and delightin' to keep any one harassed if they could.
1916, The Westminster, volume 29, page 251 more example
[…] under proper control and with an intelligent system of recess-and-noon-period-recreation the child can have uncounted good times, while with too stern a discipline or too lax a facile subjection of the teasesome and bully types and too little attention to promoting harmonious play, the grade school years may be made an unpleasant period of life.
1918, School & Society, volume 7, page 230
Origin
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