tickle

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  1. transitive verb To touch (the body) lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements.
  2. transitive verb To tease or excite pleasurably; titillate: suspense that tickles the reader's curiosity.
  3. transitive verb To fill with mirth or pleasure; delight. See Synonyms at please.
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  • He was young enough for the sensation still to be a tickle, and little more, although as I watched he grew quieter, more still. —  XXXX
  • It is a tickle, a pressure, in the water against my lips. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 01 - July 2002
  • If any of the above doesn't fancy your tickle, then maybe —  Aussie-Nintendo.com Forums
  • Visitor 2: tickle, tic, tickle, ... tickle, (sound, sounds, more sound), then from out of nowhere.
  • We were greatly surprised last year when we got a tickle (at last). —  Central Western Daily
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prickle ·  tickling ·  tingle ·  sample-and-hold ·  gad ·  flex ·  itch ·  prickling ·  cir

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tickle:   tickled
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English tikelen, perhaps frequentative of ticken, to touch lightly.

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  1. Prob. from tickle, a., difficult, perilous.
  2. Early modern English also ticle; from Middle English tiklen, tikelen, freq. of tikken, English tick, touch lightly: see tick. Cf. German dial. zicklen, excite, stir up. Cf. tickle, adjective Not, as often supposed, a transposed form of kittle.
  3. Early modern English also ticle; from Middle English tickle, tikel, tikil; from tickle, v. Not, as often supposed, a transposed form of kittle, a.
  4. from tickle, v.
 

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/ˈtɪkl/
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