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tickle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Tickle \Tic"kle\, v. i.
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To feel titillation.
He with secret joy therefore Did tickle inwardly in every vein.
--Spenser. To excite the sensation of titillation.
--Shak.
Tickle \Tic"kle\, a.
Ticklish; easily tickled. [Obs.]
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Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant. [Obs.]
The world is now full tickle, sikerly.
--Chaucer.So tickle is the state of earthy things.
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Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown. [Obs.]
Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it off.
--Shak.
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), from Dutch kietelen, from a common North Sea Germanic word for "to tickle" (compare Old Norse kitla, Old High German kizzilon, German kitzeln).\n
\nMeaning "to excite agreeably" (late 14c.) is a translation of Latin titillare. Meaning "to touch lightly so as to cause a peculiar and uneasy sensation in the nerves" is recorded from late 14c.; that of "to poke or touch so as to excite laughter" is from early 15c.; figurative sense of "to excite, amuse" is attested from 1680s. Related: Tickled; tickling. The noun is recorded from 1801. To tickle (one's) fancy is from 1640s.
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 the recipient to feel a usually pleasant sensation of tingleing or titillation. 2 (context intransitive of a body part English) To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled. 3 (context transitive English) To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity et
4 (context transitive English) To cause delight or amusement in. 5 (context intransitive English) To feel titillation.
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: thrill, vibrate]
touch or stroke lightly; "The grass tickled her calves"
n. a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking
the act of tickling [syn: tickling, titillation]
Wikipedia
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Tickle is an American docudrama television series on the Discovery Channel. A spin-off of Moonshiners, the series follows moonshiner Steven Ray Tickle as he attempts to sell a large stash of moonshine that he found in the backwoods of Virginia. Tickle opens a fishing store called "Tickle's Tackle" in the town of Gretna as a front to move the liquor, but discovers that managing a business is more difficult than he expected.
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 engineer
- Gerard William Tickle (1909–1994), English prelate
- Jon Tickle (born 1974), British TV presenter
- Phyllis Tickle (1934–2015), American author and lecturer
- Steven Ray Tickle, American television personality on Moonshiners and Tickle.
tickling is the act of touching a part of the body lightly so as to cause involuntary laughter or contraction of the muscles;
Tickle may also refer to:
- Tickle (surname), list of people with the surname
- Mr. Tickle, book by Roger Hargreaves
- Tickle.com a former interpersonal media company providing self-discovery and social networking services
- Trout tickling, a method of fishing by hand
- Titanium tetrachloride, a chemical compound (TiCl)
- Tcl, a pronunciation of the name of the scripting language
- Tickle Me, a 1965 western comedy-musical starring Elvis Presley
- Tickle Me Elmo, the most famous children's toy/Holiday season legend
- Tickle (TV series), a TV series named after Steven Ray Tickle
- Gudgudee, an Indian film released in 1997 whose name translates as Tickle
- Tickles (song), song by Swedish singer Elin Lanto
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.