Crossword clues for tickled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tickle \Tic"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tickled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tickling.] [Perhaps freq. of tick to beat; pat; but cf. also AS. citelian to tickle, D. kittelen, G. kitzlen, OHG. chizzil[=o]n, chuzzil[=o]n, Icel. kitla. Cf. Kittle, v. t.]
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To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.
If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
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To please; to gratify; to make joyous.
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
--Pope.Such a nature Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow Which he treads on at noon.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pleased, happy," 1580s, past participle adjective from tickle (v.). To be tickled pink is from 1909.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: tickle)
Wikipedia
Tickled is a 2016 documentary about "competitive endurance tickling" and videos about it, directed by David Farrier and Dylan Reeve. The film explores possible legal and ethical issues with the activity, and has itself been the subject of legal challenges.
It was funded on Kickstarter in June 2014, and also by the New Zealand Film Commission.
Usage examples of "tickled".
Mostly they responded, which tickled him and actually improved his relations with all ships' crews.
It reminded her of something, and the memory tickled at the back of her mind.
Halfway through a glass of porssfruit juice, something tickled her memory about Thek.
And when it came out that she was imitating her parents, by creating her own little dig-site, she had so tickled them that they actually sent her one.
Which he promptly took off, a habit that had tickled her errant humor.
He lay upon the rug, his nose tickled by the nap as he studied the details.
Menolly reached down and tickled Lazy's neck where he lay by her feet.
When a whiff of some foul odor tickled his nose, he had been cramped too long in one position to be able to move fast enough—one strong hand caught his arm behind him and wrenched it up high on his shoulder-blade, and another was clapped over his mouth.
Tendrils of her curly hair escaped from her helmet and tickled his nose.
Their legs were tangled together, his arms were around her, and the hair on his chest both tickled and delighted her.
Her hair fell in soft disarray around her shoulders and tickled her where the pullover’s deep V revealed her neck and the gentle swell of her breasts.
Just at the point it would have tickled, he sank his teeth delicately into her skin.
None of them tickled his instincts, telling him that there was less to an artifact than it appeared.
Better that they do as their father had - marry Chinese and go whoring in whatever cultures and races tickled their cocks.
The Donovans talked and laughed with her, washed dishes and tickled the baby with her, and generally made her feel at home.