He was teased by the other boys for being a "jessie" or gay.
"Emer's got a boyfriend and a girlfriend!" my friends teased, remarkably cool about my queer polyness in an Irish town where the majority would have prescribed immediate and urgent exorcism.
Facebook, iTunes and other towering digital giants have flourished using elements first teased or pioneered by Fanning's software.
The shop steward, beautifully played by Bob Hoskins, has to wait until they cover themselves before he is prepared to talk to them, while the boy who sweeps the floor is teased about having an erection.
I put on the TV and only saw pale skin, I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin.
This album's 11th-hour manifestation – even its uppercase title, BEYONCÉ, looked like someone jumping out from behind a bush with a klaxon – meant that it was too late for inclusion on most end-of-year lists, but as well as leapfrogging music critics, its release depended on precisely zero airplay, hinged on not one TV appearance, and was not even teased online.
The Week's Mark Ambinder has teased out why that is; they aren't on board with the guiding principle of today's right-wing journalists: Obama is evil.
You won't find a single household in the village whose woman he hadn't teased or molested.
An Italian woman who shares her name with a goat from the children's television series Peppa Pig is reportedly demanding €100,000 in compensation from the programme's British producers, claiming she has been "teased and made an object of scorn" since the character was introduced.
It teased universal insecurities about having anything sensible to say (the remedy was an Economist subscription).
When Daft Punk teased Get Lucky with a loop of Nile Rodger's disco riff, it sounded like it would be a triumphant return to the band's Discovery-era peak.
