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Tickle   /tˈɪkəl/   Listen
Tickle

noun
1.
A cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking.
2.
The act of tickling.  Synonyms: tickling, titillation.
verb
(past & past part. tickled; pres. part. tickling)
1.
Touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.  Synonyms: titillate, vellicate.
2.
Feel sudden intense sensation or emotion.  Synonyms: thrill, vibrate.
3.
Touch or stroke lightly.



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"Tickle" Quotes from Famous Books



... speak profanely. That swashbuckler H-RC-RT now, swaggering there—why, The big burly Bobadil's acting insanely. I do like to draw him. These ramparts are mine, But because we're old comrades he cheeks me. "Woa, EMMA!" As cads used to shout. I extremely incline To tickle ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101. July 4, 1891 • Various

... will meet with no difficulty in discounting them, and we will refund you the discount. We have reserved the right of giving a new title to the book. We don't care for The Archer of Charles IX.; it doesn't tickle the reader's curiosity sufficiently; there were several kings of that name, you see, and there were so many archers in the Middle Ages. If you had only called it the Soldier of Napoleon, now! But The Archer of Charles IX.!—why, ...
— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac

... straggling got bad you and I might fall a long way behind and fire our pistols, so as to give the impression Kurds are in pursuit. That would tickle up the rear-end to ...
— The Eye of Zeitoon • Talbot Mundy

... hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall ...
— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris

... never—" She gasped between the kisses. And then she began, very softly and lightly, to tickle her grandma. ...
— The Garden Party • Katherine Mansfield


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