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Tingling   /tˈɪŋgəlɪŋ/  /tˈɪŋglɪŋ/   Listen
Tingling

noun
1.
A somatic sensation as from many tiny prickles.  Synonyms: prickling, tingle.
adjective
1.
Exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements.  Synonyms: tickling, titillating.



Tingle

verb
(past & past part. tingled; pres. part. tingling)
1.
Cause a stinging or tingling sensation.  Synonym: prickle.






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"Tingling" Quotes from Famous Books



... —It's the tingling of your blood. I feel my blood. It flows heavy through my veins, thick, thick, black, smelling of rum. And when it gets to my heart, it all falls ...
— Savva and The Life of Man • Leonid Andreyev

... The girl was tingling now. "I remember! I remember the men who rode into the town to give the alarm. Their horses were white with foam; their heads hung down, and their sides went in and out. I pitied the poor things. Mother jumped on her pony, and rode out among the men. She wanted to go with them, but they wouldn't ...
— Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger - A Romance of the Mountain West • Hamlin Garland

... excessively loud. As the illustrious stranger came on board with so much pomp and ceremony, I, from the impulse of pure courtesy, could not do otherwise than bow to it; for which act of politeness the first-lieutenant gave me a very considerably tingling box ...
— Rattlin the Reefer • Edward Howard

... and Telson, walking arm-in-arm. Although the same spectacle had met his eyes on an average twice every day that term, and was about the commonest "show" in Willoughby, the sight of the faithful pair at this particular time when the revelations of Bosher's diary were tingling in his ears impressed the captain. Indeed, it impressed him so much that, at the imminent risk of being late for the doctor's tea, he pulled up to ...
— The Willoughby Captains • Talbot Baines Reed

... the bearing, too, these Frenchmen! He watched Monsieur de Founcelles bending over Violet, and he was suddenly conscious of a wholly new sensation. He did not recognize—could not even classify it. He only knew that it was not altogether pleasant, and that it set the warm blood tingling ...
— Peter Ruff and the Double Four • E. Phillips Oppenheim


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