eve-teasing, n. Indian English.
Brit. /ˈiːvˌtiːzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈivˌtizɪŋ/
Forms: also with capital initial.
[‹ Eve, the name of the first woman as given in the Book of Genesis (see eve-teaser n.) + teasing n.1 Compare eve-teaser n.]
Sexual harassment of a woman by a man in a public place. Cf. eve-teaser n.
| 1960 Times 22 Apr. 9 ‘Eve-teasing’ is not, apparently, just the oafish high spirits or illwill of a handful of male students but is rather a symptom of the strong resentment which many students feel against women in the universities. 1974 Asian Surv. 14 787 While their student friends go to the classes, they sit in coffee houses or on lawns of the University and indulge in ‘eve-teasing’. 1992 S. Tharoor Show Business (1995) iv. 238 The dramatic rise in Eve-teasing, which is really nothing less than the sexual harassment of women in the street, isn't entirely unconnected with Hindi films. 2002 Press Trust of India (Nexis) 22 Dec. Eve-teasing and harassment of women in the national capital also dominated the headlines..in the wake of a string of complaints being reported daily capped by a day-light rape of a medical student in a busy area. |