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Tickle v. t. (past & past part. tickled; pres. part. tickling)

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. "If you tickle us, do we not laugh?"

To please; to gratify; to make joyous. "Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw." "Such a nature Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow Which he treads on at noon."

Tickle v. i.

To feel titillation. "He with secret joy therefore Did tickle inwardly in every vein."

To excite the sensation of titillation.

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Etymology of 'Tickling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tickling" Quotes from Famous Books

... did the fellow on the ranch want to do with that skunk? Something about tickling, ...

— South Wind • Norman Douglas

... Tickling is also practised with success, the men standing in the edge of a lake among the grass and sedges, where the fish seek cooler water in the heat ...

— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall

... has been so in every stage of our civilisation. In 1921 it is no more under control than it was in the days of Charlemagne or Attila or Xerxes. Charitable efforts to relieve it have proved as effective as tickling with a feather to cure disease. Or again, high prices and low wages, high wages creating high prices, resented conditions leading to strikes, strikes bringing confusion to both wages and prices alike—these things perplex the most clear-sighted among us, compelling ...

— The Conquest of Fear • Basil King

... legs, to the very fetlocks, always cleansing the brush from the dust by rubbing it with the currycomb. In the curry-combing process, as well as brushing, it must be applied with mildness, especially with fine-skinned horses; otherwise the tickling irritates them much. The brushing is succeeded by a hair-cloth, with which rub him all over again very hard, both to take away loose hairs and lay his coat; then wash your hands in fair water, and rub him all over while they are wet, ...

— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton

... a hot breath upon his cheek, and a tickling sensation in his ear beyond; Jem's lips seemed to settle themselves against it, and the tickling sensation was renewed, ...

— The Adventures of Don Lavington - Nolens Volens • George Manville Fenn

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