prickteaser

Questions about prickteaser

What does prickteaser mean?

prickteaser means "a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men".

How many syllables are in prickteaser?

prickteaser has 4 syllables and divides as prick-te-a-ser under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for prickteaser?

Close synonyms include coquette, flirt, vamp, vamper, minx. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prickteaser a common word?

prickteaser is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.