Chòng ghẹo, trêu chọc, đùa bỡn một cách không tử tế, tìm cách khiêu khích

stop teasing the cat

đừng chòng ghẹo con mèo nữa

Quấy rầy

to tease someone for something

quấy rầy ai để được cái gì, quấy rầy ai vì cái gì

Chải (mặt vải) làm cho nó mượt

Gỡ (len) thành từng tao riêng

Người hay chòng ghẹo, người thích trêu chọc người khác

Sự chòng ghẹo, sự trêu chọc

Bait, taunt, torment, harass, bedevil, bother, nettle,plague, chaff, pester, annoy, irritate, needle, goad, badger,provoke, vex, twit, tantalize, frustrate, Non-Standardaggravate, Colloq guy, pick on, rib, drive mad or crazy, driveup the wall, Brit take the mickey out of, Slang rag: Stopteasing the animals! Frances would tease me by agreeing to goout and then begging off with a headache. 2 coax, worry, winkle,work, manipulate: He was finally able to tease the broken pieceof key out of the lock.

V.tr. (also absol.) 1 a make fun of (a person oranimal) playfully or unkindly or annoyingly. b tempt or allure,esp. sexually, while refusing to satisfy the desire aroused.

Pick (wool, hair, etc.) into separate fibres.

Dress (cloth)esp. with teasels.

N.

Colloq. a person fond of teasing.

An instance of teasing (it was only a tease).

Teasingly adv. [OE t‘san f. WG]