Variations around "teasing so"

To poke fun (at)

• to make unkind jokes about someone or something

To tease

• to say something to someone in order to have fun by embarrassing or annoying them slightly in either a friendly or an unkind way
• to annoy an animal in order to have fun

Tease

• something that someone says or does when they are teasing you

To burlesque

• to represent a serious subject in a silly way in order to make people laugh

To jeer

• to shout or laugh at someone in an unkind way that shows you have no respect for them

Jeer, jeering

• an unkind laugh or comment that shows you have no respect for someone

Lampoon

• to publicly criticize someone or something by making jokes about them

To laugh

• to show that you think someone or something is stupid or deserves no respect

To mock

• to make someone or something look stupid by laughing at them, copying them, or saying something that is not kind

Mockery

• something that makes a system, organization etc seem stupid or useless, remarks or behaviour intended to make someone seem stupid, for example laughing at them, copying them, or saying something that is not kind

To parade

• to make someone walk around so that people will look at them and often laugh at them

To parody

• to copy someone or something in a way that makes people laugh

Piss-take of sth/so

• an attempt to make someone or something seem silly

To rag on

• to say things in order to make someone feel embarrassed, usually in a friendly way

To rib

• to joke about someone in a friendly way that makes them slightly embarrassed

To ridicule

• to try to make someone or something seem silly by making fun of them in an unkind way

Self-mockery

• the practice of making yourself appear silly to show other people that you have a humorous attitude towards yourself

Send-up

• a way of talking or behaving in which you copy the way that someone else talks or behaves in a humorous way

Take-off

• an occasion when someone copies the voice or behaviour of someone else in a humorous way

To spoof

• laugh someone/something out of court: if you laugh someone or something out of court, you show them that you think their ideas or suggestions are very silly

Make a mockery of

• to make someone or something seem stupid or useless

Make a monkey out of someone

• to make someone seem stupid

Make fun of

• to make jokes about someone or something in an unkind way

Make light of something

• to treat something as not very serious

To take the mickey

• to say something in order to try and make someone or something look silly, especially in a friendly way. Doing this is called mickey-taking and someone who does it is a mickey-taker

To take the piss

• to say something to try to make someone look silly