Tickle
['tɪk(ə)l] or ['tɪkl]
Definition
(noun.) the act of tickling.
(noun.) a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking.
(verb.) touch or stroke lightly; 'The grass tickled her calves'.
(verb.) touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.
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Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To please; to gratify; to make joyous.
(v. i.) To feel titillation.
(v. i.) To excite the sensation of titillation.
(a.) Ticklish; easily tickled.
(a.) Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant.
(a.) Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Titillate.[2]. Please (by trifles), delight, gladden, rejoice, gratify, make glad, give joy to, take one's fancy, do one's heart good.
Editor: Margaret
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Titillate, please, gratify, amuse
ANT:Irritate, hurt, annoy, vex
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Definition
adj. (Spens.) uncertain insecure: (Shak.) tottering insecure easily tickled ticklish.—n. Tick′ler something difficult a puzzle: a banker's memorandum-book: a dram of spirits.—adj. Tick′lish easily tickled: easily affected: nice: critical.—adv. Tick′lishly.—n. Tick′lishness.—adj. Tick′ly ticklish.—n. Tickly-bend′er risky ice that bends under a skater: (pl.) any game as tag played on such ice.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being tickled, denotes insistent worries and illness. If you tickle others, you will throw away much enjoyment through weakness and folly.
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Examples
- This question seemed to tickle Malone amazingly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This sally seemed to tickle the clerk amazingly, and he once more enjoyed a little quiet laugh to himself. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Tickle, tickle; Pickle, pickle! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Remember how tickled he used to be, cause she would keep a fallin' over, when she sot out to walk. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- This tickled Mr Sloppy as an extraordinarily good joke, and he threw back his head and laughed with measureless enjoyment. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- My girl's earnestness tickled me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Some joke tickled her, I suppose, of the sort that you can't take unless you are a person of quality. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Which so tickled the spectators, that they laughed almost as heartily as Master Bates could have done if he had heard the request. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Tickler was a wax-ended piece of cane, worn smooth by collision with my tickled frame. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- What honest man, on being casually taken for a housebreaker, does not feel rather tickled than vexed at the mistake? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A fly crawled on his hands but the small tickling did not come through the pain. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- One is to utilize excitement, shock of pleasure, tickling the palate. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I found much amusement in tickling up my mare a little, as I rode it close to his horse in order to put a little mettle into them both. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- This pleasantry so tickles Mr. Smallweed that he laughs, long and low, before the fire. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- First, something tickles your right knee, and then the same sensation irritates your left. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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