[f. prec. + -ER1.] One who or that which tantalizes.
1792. G. Wakefield, Mem. (1804), I. i. 16. Alas! this episcopal tantalizer was only gratifying his facetious propensity at the expence of an unsuspecting child of simplicity and innocence.
1812. Miss Byron, Englishman, IV. ii. 88. ‘How has this transformation been effected?’ said Miss Parsloe, the designing tantalizer of Mrs. Tibbits.
1844. Wardlaw, Lect. Prov. (1869), I. 50. The blessed God is no tantalizer.
1889. Pall Mall G., 11 July, 6/1. I have received a puzzle of the ‘Pigs in Clover’ kind…. ‘Penning the Lambs’ is the name by which the latest variation of the original tantalizer has been christened.
