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/tˈɪŋgəl/ Listen

verb

Tingle v. i. (past & past part. tingled; pres. part. tingling)

To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound. "At which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle."

To feel a sharp, thrilling pain. "The pale boy senator yet tingling stands."

To have, or to cause, a sharp, thrilling sensation, or a slight pricking sensation. "They suck pollution through their tingling vein."

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Etymology of 'Tingle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tingle" Quotes from Famous Books

... an icy chill dropped down from above, making the snow crystals turn sharp and crisp, crackling softly at the slightest movement. But the frosty air had no effect upon them, save to make their blood tingle in their veins and a peculiar, pricking sensation play about their nostrils as they drew their breath, tiny needles of ice twining as they respired, and making a hoar-frost ...

— Fix Bay'nets - The Regiment in the Hills • George Manville Fenn

... jubilant masses proclaim a glorious holiday, I painstakingly pick out words on the typewriter, By fits and starts, thinking up a story about the great Metropolitan tenor. The typewriter keys now hold no rhythmic tingle. But the local manager in Iowa wants the story. He has engaged the great tenor for a date next March When the Tuesday musicale ladies give their annual benefit for the Shriners. He wants the concert to be such a success, That his Iowan town will henceforth ...

— The Broadway Anthology • Edward L. Bernays, Samuel Hoffenstein, Walter J. Kingsley, Murdock Pemberton

... lowland plains with their graceful movements. Squirrels[1], of which there are a great variety, make their shrill metallic call heard at early morning in the woods, and when sounding their note of warning on the approach of a civet or a tree-snake, the ears tingle with the loud trill of defiance, which rings as clear and rapid as the running down of an alarum, and is instantly caught up and re-echoed from every ...

— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent

... lifted them into their rude sockets after she had led her horse through. All through the years since Marthy had gone down that rocky gash in search of Buck and Bawley, no human being had entered or left the Cove save through that narrow opening. The tingle of romance which swept always the nerves of the girl when she rode that way fastened upon her now. She wished the Cove belonged to her; she thought she would like to live in a place like that, with warlike Indians all around and that gorge to guard day and night. She wished ...

— The Ranch at the Wolverine • B. M. Bower

... State better than ever. It is difficult to realize how matter-of-fact the war has become with every one over here. You meet some mild mannered gentleman and talk about the weather, and then find later that he is a survivor from some desperate episode that makes your blood tingle. I would that we were over on the North Sea side, where Providence might lay us alongside a German destroyer some gray dawn. This submarine-chasing business is much like the proverbial skinning of a skunk—useful, but not especially pleasant ...

— World's War Events, Volume III • Various

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