Tingle
['tɪŋg(ə)l] or ['tɪŋɡl]
Definition
(v. i.) To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound.
(v. i.) To feel a sharp, thrilling pain.
(v. i.) To have, or to cause, a sharp, thrilling sensation, or a slight pricking sensation.
Typist: Shirley
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Have a pricking sensation.
Editor: Ryan
Definition
v.i. to feel a thrilling sensation as in hearing a shrill sound: to feel a sharp thrilling pain: to tinkle.—v.t. to cause to tingle to ring.—n. a tingling sensation.—adj. Ting′lish capable of tingling or thrilling.
Editor: Lucius
Examples
- I tingle again from head to foot as my recollection turns that corner, and my pen shakes in my hand. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It was not joy only that possessed me; I felt my flesh tingle with excess of sensitiveness, and my pulse beat rapidly. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Snow produces a glow and a tingle, if applied rightly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- In a tingle of fear I was already running down the village street, and making for the path which I had so lately descended. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- You do not know him, she replied, a little thrill of pride setting her nerves a-tingle at the thought that she spoke of her own. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He knew it was good because it made a tingle run all over him when he said it to himself. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- My advice to you, returns Mrs. Bagnet, is to light your pipe and tingle that way. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I must be my own mamma, said Rebecca; not without a tingling consciousness of defeat, as she thought over her little misadventure with Jos Sedley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Certainly a gray mist swirled before my eyes, and when it cleared I found my collar-ends undone and the tingling after-taste of brandy upon my lips. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The snow was over, and a tingling wind had sprung up, that lashed his face as he stood gazing. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- And what said Tingling-Tossing-Aching-Screaming-Scratching-Smarter? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Tingling with anger, I rushed down and hurried across, determined to end the matter once and forever. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- When Mrs. Casaubon was announced he started up as from an electric shock, and felt a tingling at his finger-ends. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The bread and meat were acceptable, and the beer was warming and tingling, and I was soon in spirits to look about me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- When she sang, every note thrilled in his dull soul, and tingled through his huge frame. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His heart tingled with the pleasing conviction that these gross eulogiums shamed Moore deeply, and made him half scorn himself and his work. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- All Jos's blood tingled with delight, as he surveyed this victim to his attractions. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- As the narrative proceeded, all the warm blood in the body of Mr. Nupkins tingled up into the very tips of his ears. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Sergeant Cuff had hit me on the raw, and, though I did look down upon him with contempt, the tender place still tingled for all that. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- My hands tingled to strike him, as if I had been a man! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He tingled with the subtle, biting sensation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Edited by Ingram