teaser

C2+ Topic:Film & Television

US /ˈtizɚ/ UK /ˈtiːzə/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
something that arouses interest by giving a brief preview

The studio released a thirty-second teaser for the film.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · something that arouses... previewtrailertantalizerteasecome-onenticement

Word family

Related forms tease teasing

Etymology

From tease + -er. Tease is from Old English tǣsan ('to pull apart, comb wool'), from Proto-Germanic *taisijaną; the modern figurative sense 'to provoke, tantalize' developed later.

tǣsan Old English *taisijaną Proto-Germanic

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Topics

Film & Television Word Formation & Derivatives General Vocabulary

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# teaser

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈtizɚ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈtiːzə/

## Meanings
1. something that arouses interest by giving a brief preview

## Examples
- The studio released a thirty-second teaser for the film.

## Synonyms
- preview
- trailer
- tantalizer
- tease
- come-on
- enticement

## Related Forms
- tease
- teasing

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: tǣsan
- Root: *taisijaną

## Etymology
From tease + -er. Tease is from Old English tǣsan ('to pull apart, comb wool'), from Proto-Germanic *taisijaną; the modern figurative sense 'to provoke, tantalize' developed later.

## AI Etymology
Teaser comes from tease + -er. Tease is from Old English tǣsan ('to pull apart, comb wool'), from Proto-Germanic *taisijaną; the modern figurative sense 'to provoke, tantalize' developed later. The historical chain includes Old English tǣsan and Proto-Germanic *taisijaną. The quoted older senses, "to pull apart, comb wool" and "to provoke, tantalize", supply the semantic anchors for teaser. The formation is best read as suffixal and borrowed: the word teaser carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "something that arouses interest by giving a brief preview". Related English forms include tease and teasing. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- Film & Television
- Word Formation & Derivatives
- General Vocabulary

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