Meticón in english
Meticon
pronunciation: metikɑn part of speech: none
pronunciation: metikɑn part of speech: none
In gestures
meterse con = needle ; pick on ; tease ; twit ; taunt ; jeer ; lam ; have + a go at ; roast ; give + Nombre + a good roasting ; rag ; rib ; pull + Posesivo + leg ; razz ; push + (all of) + Posesivo + buttons ; take + a shot at ; take + a dig at ; have + a dig at.
Example: She had been told from time to time that he seemed to derive satisfaction from needling the staff, but she had never been able to pin down specifically what he does that irks them.Example: By the way, here I have stolen a phrase from the Library of Congress, not to pick on this wonderful institution, but because its mission statement resonates with a number of individuals like me, who work in research libraries.Example: I like to be considered one of the team, to joke with and tease the employee but that sure creates a problem when I have to discipline, correct, or fire an employee.Example: Don't be tempted into twitting me with the past knowledge that you have of me, because it is identical with the past knowledge that I have of you, and in twitting me, you twit yourself.Example: The writer describes how he spent his school days avoiding bullies who taunted him because he was a dancer.Example: Taunts from her Hispanic students spurred a Japanese-American teacher to develop a multicultural unit that helped children appreciate the culture they had previously jeered.Example: Pretty soon he was lamming me on every pretext he could find.Example: In the 1980s that meant having a go at all the trendy lefties and pacifists, and so our main issues were class politics and violence.Example: The critics, however, roasted her for playing a tragic French heroine with a flat Midwestern accent.Example: What impressed me was that the rest of the board gave him a good roasting for wasting peoples time.Example: Someone ragged her in college and she hit him.Example: Finally after I ribbed her for about an hour she said that she'd slashed her wrists because of me.Example: At first he thought they were pulling his leg and told them to stop pissing him around.Example: I used to razz her about her fear of food, an unfortunate remnant of her history as a model.Example: My wife says I push all of her buttons but, unfortunately, I still haven't been able to find the 'mute' button.Example: The singer made this frank admission during a radio interview and even appeared to take a shot at her fellow panelist Nicki.Example: She has been getting a lot of criticism about her weight and now the latest one to take a dig at her is actor Kamaal who has called her 'a fat aunty'.Example: My best friend floored me recently when casually revealed that women are constantly having a dig at her for deciding not to have children.