Tickle

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  • intransitive verb. To touch (the body) lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To tease or excite pleasurably; titillate.
  • intransitive verb. To fill with mirth or pleasure; delight.
  • intransitive verb. To feel or cause a tingling sensation.
  • noun. The act of tickling.
  • noun. A tickling sensation.
  • idiom. (tickled pink) Very pleased; delighted.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A narrow passage or entrance to a harbor.
  • Easily moved; unsteady; unstable; inconstant.
  • noun. A light teasing touch in some sensitive part; a gentle tickling act or action.
  • To tease with repeated light touches in some sensitive part, so as to excite the nerves, thereby producing a peculiar thrilling sensation which commonly results in spasmodic laughter, or, if too long continued, in a convulsion; titillate.
  • To touch, affect, or excite agreeably; gratify; please or amuse by gentle appeals to one's imagination, sense of humor, vanity, or the like.
  • To take, move, or produce by touching lightly.
  • To feel titillation: as, his foot tickled.
  • To tingle pleasantly; thrill with gratification or amusement.
  • To have an impatient or uneasy desire to do or to get something; itch; tingle.
  • To produce the sensation of titillation, or the slight nervous excitement of a light touch on some sensitive part.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To feel titillation.
  • intransitive verb. To excite the sensation of titillation.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. To please; to gratify; to make joyous.
  • adjective. Ticklish; easily tickled.
  • adjective. Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant.
  • adjective. Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of tickling.
  • noun. A feeling resembling the result of tickling.
  • noun. A narrow strait.
  • verb. To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes the recipient to feel a usually pleasant sensation of tingling or titillation.
  • verb. To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.
  • verb. To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.
  • verb. To cause delight or amusement.
  • adjective. Changeable, capricious; insecure.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
  • noun. the act of tickling
  • verb. touch or stroke lightly
  • noun. a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking
  • verb. feel sudden intense sensation or emotion
  • Word Usage
    "The word "tickle" comes from the Middle English tickelen, which it's believed came from ticken, to touch lightly."
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