Teaser vs Terser - What's the difference?
teaser | terser |
One who teases or pokes fun
A person or thing that teases (textile treatment)
A short film or quote meant to draw an audience to a film or show.
(UK, dialect) A kind of gull, the jaeger.
(terse)
(obsolete) Polished, burnished; smooth; fine, neat, spruce.
(of speech or style) Brief, concise, to the point.
* 1907 , , title page:
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 4, author=Lewis Smith, work=the Guardian
, title= Abruptly or brusquely short.
As a noun teaser
is one who teases or pokes fun.As an adjective terser is
comparative of terse.teaser
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* ----terser
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* ----terse
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(er)- "A consise and comprehensive dictionary of general knowledge consisting of over 16,000 terse and original articles on nearly all subjects discussed in larger encyclopaedias,"
Queen's English Society says enuf is enough, innit?, passage=Having attempted to identify a role for the society and its magazine, Quest, "for the next 40 years", the society chairman, Rhea Williams, decided it was time to close. She announced the group's demise in a terse message to members following the annual meeting, which just 22 people attended.}}