tickle
Use Tickle in a sentence
əl verb (used with object)
1.
to touch or stroke lightly with the fingers, a feather, etc., so as to excite a tingling or itching sensation in; titillate.
2.
to poke some sensitive part of the body so as to excite spasmodic laughter.
3.
to excite agreeably; gratify: to tickle someone's vanity.
4.
to excite amusement in: The clown's antics really tickled the kids.
5.
to get, move, etc., by or as by tickling: She tickled him into saying yes.
verb (used without object)
6.
to be affected with a tingling or itching sensation, as from light touches or strokes: I tickle all over.
7.
to produce such a sensation.
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noun
Idioms 8.
an act or instance of tickling.
9.
a tickling sensation.
10.
tickled pink, Informal. greatly pleased: She was tickled pink that someone had remembered her birthday.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English tikelen, frequentative of tick1 (in obsolete sense) to touch lightly
1300–50; Middle English tikelen, frequentative of tick1 (in obsolete sense) to touch lightly
Related forms
un·tick·led, adjective
Synonyms
4. amuse, please, delight, enchant.
4. amuse, please, delight, enchant.
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tickle (ˈtɪkəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to touch, stroke, or poke (a person, part of the body, etc) so as to produce pleasure, laughter, or a twitching sensation |
| 2. | (tr) to excite pleasurably; gratify |
| 3. | (tr) to delight or entertain (often in the phrase tickle one's fancy) |
| 4. | (intr) to itch or tingle |
| 5. | (tr) to catch (a fish, esp a trout) by grasping it with the hands and gently moving the fingers into its gills |
| 6. | informal tickle pink, tickle to death to please greatly: he was tickled pink to be elected president |
| —n | |
| 7. | a sensation of light stroking or itching |
| 8. | the act of tickling |
| 9. | (Canadian) (in the Atlantic Provinces) a narrow strait |
| [C14: related to Old English tinclian, Old High German kizziton, Old Norse kitla, Latin titillāre to | |
| 'tickly | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
tickle
early 14c. (intrans.) "to be thrilled or tingling," of uncertain origin, possibly a frequentative form of tick (2) in its older sense of "to touch." The OE form was tinclian. Some suggest a metathesis of kittle (M.E. kytyllen), from Du. kietelen, from a common North Sea Gmc.
word for "to tickle" (cf. O.N. kitla, O.H.G. kizzilon, Ger. kitzeln). Meaning "to excite agreeably" (late 14c.) is a translation of L. titillare. Meaning "to touch lightly so as to cause a peculiar and uneasy sensation" is recorded from late 14c.; that of "to poke or touch so as to excite laughter" is from early 15c.; figurative sense of "to excite, amuse" is attested from 1680s. The noun is recorded from 1801. Ticklish in the lit. sense of "easily tickled" is recorded from 1598, later than the fig. sense (1580s); an earlier word for this was tickly (1520s). Tickled "pleased, happy" is from 1580s.
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Computing Dictionary
Tickle definition
text, toolA text editor, file translator and TCL interpreter for the Macintosh.
Version 5.0v1. The text editor breaks the 32K limit (like MPW).
The file translation utilities support drag and drop handling via tcl scripts of BinHex, MacBinary, Apple Computer Single/Double, StuffIt (with engine), Unix compress, Unix tar and UUencode files as well as text translation.
Tickle implements tcl 7.0 with tclX extensions and Macintosh equivalents of Unix's ls, pwd, cd commands. It provides Macintosh access to Resource Manager, Communications Toolbox, OSA Components (and AppleScript), Editions (publish and subscribe) and Apple Events (including AEBuild and AEPrint). OSA Script support allows programming of any OSA scripting component within Tickle interpreter windows. It provides the OSAtcl and OSAJ J/APL extensions and creates "Ticklets" which are small application programs that carry only the tcl script and use code in the OSAtcl component to drive an application that allows drag and drop with tcl scripts. Tickle is scriptable and recordable.
(ftp://ftp.msen.com/pub/vendor/ice/tickle/Tickle5.0v1.hqx).
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The nerves, however, have only two settings tickle and pain.
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