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What one might do with one's fancy
Answer for the clue "What one might do with one's fancy ", 6 letters:
tickle
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
changeable, capricious; insecure. n. 1 The act of tickling. 2 A feeling resembling the result of tickling. 3 (context Newfoundland English) A narrow strait. v 1 (context transitive English) To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c. (intransitive) "to be thrilled or tingling," of uncertain origin, possibly a frequentative form of tick (v.) in its older sense of "to touch." The Old English form was tinclian . Some suggest a metathesis of kittle (Middle English kytyllen ), ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tickle \Tic"kle\, v. i. To feel titillation. He with secret joy therefore Did tickle inwardly in every vein. --Spenser. To excite the sensation of titillation. --Shak.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements [syn: titillate , vellicate ] feel sudden intense sensation or emotion; "he was thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine" [syn: ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tickle is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charlie Tickle (1883 – after 1919), English footballer Cheryll Tickle , British biologist Danny Tickle (born 1983), English rugby league footballer David Tickle , British record producer and ...
Usage examples of tickle.
It causes tickling and frequent desire to clear the throat, change, weakness, or entire loss of voice, and difficulty of breathing, frequently giving rise to the most persistent and aggravating cough.
It causes tickling and frequent desire to clear the throat, also change, weakness and loss of voice, and often gives rise to a very persistent and aggravating cough.
When the anemometer on the robot sampled the wind speed, little cilia inside my suit tickled my skin.
I would fain tickle his long ears with ribald rhyme, and hearken to the barbarous braying forth of his asinine reflections!
Why, another fraction of an inch or so of growth and that hair would be tickling the bejabbers out of him.
This speech seemed to tickle the other prodigiously, for he burst into a loud and boisterous laugh, under cover of which he thrust his pistol back into his coat-pocket again.
An attendant carried infant Hippolyte, and the baby crowed and burbled as Hugh smiled at her and tickled her under her fat chin.
Nerves were jumping gleefully in her stomach, tickling in her throat, buzzing in her head.
Sugar considers tickling Caddie with a description of her faulty grammar made flesh: a procession of earnest moustachioed policemen, pretty skirts frou-frouing under their sombre overcoats.
She often came to breakfast with us, and when she found us in bed she would embrace my sweetheart, whom she called her wife, passing her hand over the coverlet to tickle her, telling her that she was her wife, and that she wanted to have a child.
And though it falls, continues still Tickling the Cittern with his quill.
Besides that, it had a brand new cowhide bottom with fur that sort of tickled my legs.
Even now the deuced tendrils crept out of her chignon and tickled her face.
I said nothing, for fear she would remark my sensitiveness, and when she would go on saying that my skin was soft, the tickling sensation made me draw back, angry with myself that I did not dare to do the same to her, but delighted at her not guessing how I longed to do it.
Sam now is tickled to have Edd see the very prettiest girl who ever came to Cedar Ridge ride up on his horse.