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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tingle
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tingling sensation (=a feeling that your skin is stinging slightly)
▪ She felt a tingling sensation, like a mild electric shock.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fear
▪ I jerked back, tingling with fear, feeling it peel off like a strand of elastoplast.
▪ A tingle of fear mixed with excitement came over me.
▪ My face was tingling with fear and I felt in imminent need of a toilet-roll.
▪ I remember walking into the board room tingling with fear and energy.
skin
▪ She felt heady with excitement, and her skin tingled.
▪ His fingers wrapped themselves round her ankles, sliding upwards, making her skin tingle.
▪ So delicate and suggestive was the touch that her skin tingled.
▪ Her skin was tingling and for some reason or other her face felt flushed.
▪ She could feel her skin tingling with delighted response.
▪ Berdichev shivered but stood straighter, his skin still tingling from the shower.
■ VERB
feel
▪ She felt the tingle in her hands.
▪ The next few days I felt a curious tingling, itching sensation on my face.
▪ As always, I felt a rising tingle of excitement as I contemplated the meticulously shorn surfaces of my face.
▪ Sometimes my lips or fingers feel numb or tingle for no reason. 5.
▪ If I touch the handheld stimulator to the back of my hand, I feel a slight tingle.
▪ She could feel her skin tingling with delighted response.
▪ I feel excited and I tingle everywhere.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A slight breeze rose to cool his scalp, which had been sun-baked, then doused with water until it tingled.
▪ Berdichev shivered but stood straighter, his skin still tingling from the shower.
▪ Liz's fingernails were tingling, her nerves crawling with frustration.
▪ Seldom will you encounter a character who will make your fingers tingle so much in anticipation of closing them around his neck.
▪ She felt heady with excitement, and her skin tingled.
▪ Suspense in fiction, that tingling sensation that makes us keep turning the pages, seems to arise in two ways.
▪ The next few days I felt a curious tingling, itching sensation on my face.
▪ With every nerve tingling she lowered her hand, barely feeling the comb bite into her palm as her grip tightened.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tingle

Tingle \Tin"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tingled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tingling.] [Freq. of ting. Cf. Tinkle.]

  1. To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound.

    At which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.
    --1 Sam. iii. 11.

  2. To feel a sharp, thrilling pain.

    The pale boy senator yet tingling stands.
    --Pope.

  3. To have, or to cause, a sharp, thrilling sensation, or a slight pricking sensation.

    They suck pollution through their tingling vein.
    --Tickell.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tingle

late 14c., "to have a ringing sensation when hearing something," also "to have a stinging or thrilling feeling," variation of tinkelen (see tinkle). Related: Tingled; tingling. The noun is first recorded 1700 in reference to sound, 1848 in reference to sensation.

Wiktionary
tingle

Etymology 1 n. A prickle or stinging sensation. vb. 1 To have a prickle or mildly stinging sensation. 2 To make ringing sounds, to twang. Etymology 2

vb. 1 To ring 2 To cause to ring

WordNet
tingle

  1. n. an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him" [syn: frisson, shiver, chill, quiver, shudder, thrill]

  2. a prickling somatic sensation as from many tiny pricks [syn: prickling, tingling]

  3. v. cause a stinging or tingling sensation [syn: prickle]

Wikipedia
Tingle (song)

"Tingle" is a 1991 single by That Petrol Emotion.

Tingle

is the video game character of the eponymous Tingle series. He was originally part of the The Legend of Zelda series, first appearing in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Since his first appearance, he has appeared in each installment of the series up through Spirit Tracks, except for Twilight Princess. He has gone on to be the star of video games for the Nintendo DS: Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, currently released in Japan and Europe, and the Japan exclusive games Tingle's Balloon Fight DS, Irozuki Tincle no Koi no Balloon Trip, as well as the DSiWare application Dekisugi Tingle Pack.

Usage examples of "tingle".

He urged her back against the closed door and kissed her neck, the bristle from his shaven jaw abrading her and making her skin tingle.

Dasslerond yelled at him, and she seemed even more fierce than usual, for her golden hair was all aflutter from the tingling of his electrical burst.

Danae fell back, her whole body tingling with the afterclap of that scream.

An unpleasant tingling sensation that had nothing to do with the burning of his cheeks engulfed Alec briefly as he hurried downstairs.

This time the glowing drops vanished as they touched Alec, leaving a faint tingling sensation in their wake.

A yellow-and-green bungee cord was wrapped tightly around his ankles, which explained the weird tingling he was starting to become aware of in his feet.

The thought that she still had the cablegram filled her with a tingling thrill.

Thankfully, she caught herself, tingling with embarrassment and feeling as if the dweeb had overstepped her bounds.

Or how her body tingled with electrifying awareness because of the man seated at her side?

As Patrick got the hang of the eraser and bore down with it, the tingling became a deep and monstrous itch.

There was a self-fermented alcoholic tingle as well, and beneath that a mellowing, relaxing, euphoric haze.

Xiao Fei had returned to his shoulders, pressing and kneading the muscles there until his skin tingled with awareness.

And some of them hurried off to the house of the Freer and took refuge with him amongst his holy things from all the unhallowed shapes that there were in their streets and all the magic that tingled and loomed in the air.

The full moon was close to rising, and the force of it had my whole body tingling.

Tired women wended their way home replete with milk poured from honeypots, still tingling from the voluptuous dry slither of snakes and remembering the powerful surge of snake muscle, the kiss of a forked tongue, earth broken open to receive the seed, a crown of vine leaves, the eternal female cycle of birth and death.