Слово "tease". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

He said he was trying to get Miss Maudie’s goat, that he had been trying unsuccessfully for forty years, that he was the last person in the world Miss Maudie would think about marrying but the first person she thought about teasing, and the best defense to her was spirited offense, all of which we understood clearly.

You really blow them?" he was teasing now.

That is what he thinks of all day long—how to tease me.

"Did you not think, Mr. Darcy, that I expressed myself uncommonly well just now, when I was teasing Colonel Forster to give us a ball at Meryton?"

She attracted him more than he liked—and Miss Bingley was uncivil to her, and more teasing than usual to himself.

Not enough hurt in the world, you've got to tease people with stuff like that ! "

While the father kept giving him a lot of advice, old Ophelia was sort of horsing around with her brother, taking his dagger out of the holster, and teasing him and all while he was trying to look interested in the bull his father was shooting.

"Impossible, Mr. Bennet, impossible, when I am not acquainted with him myself; how can you be so teasing?"

'Speak roughly to your little boy, And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases.'