teasy, a. colloq. and dial.
(ˈtiːzɪ)
[f. tease v.1 + -y.]
a. Teasing, irritating.
| 1901 J. H. Harris Luck of Wheal Veor 164 A poor woman wethout a man, an' three gert stramming maids to keep, es like a cow wethout a tail when the flies is taisey. 1908 19th Cent. Jan. 188 It's a teasy job. 1938 E. Pound Let. 8 May (1971) 315, I forget what he and Domenik have to say, but teckon it's teasy. |
b. Bad-tempered, irritable, tetchy.
| 1866 T. R. Higham Dial. between Two Cornish Miners 5 My owld 'umman was..so taisy that I cudden live in the house. 1907 A. Quiller-Couch Major Vigoureux xvii. 167 He'll be as teasy as fire when he hears about it. 1931 C. C. Rogers Gwendra Cove 193 'E was a teasy oald bachelor, I reckon. 1976 J. C. Trewin in D. V. Baker Cornish Short Stories 135 ‘Go 'long, you teasy toad!’ shrilled Mrs Bosworthick. |
Hence ˈteasily adv.
| 1928 A. Bennett in Daily Express 1 Sept. 5/5 ‘And what will Mrs. Meadowes say to all this Red politics?’ Alan demanded teasily. |