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tick⋅le

  [tik-uhl] verb, -led, -ling, noun
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–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.
–noun
8. an act or instance of tickling.
9. a tickling sensation.
—Idiom
10. tickled pink, Informal. greatly pleased: She was tickled pink that someone had remembered her birthday.
Origin:
1300–50; ME tikelen, freq. of tick 1 (in obs. sense) to touch lightly

Synonyms:
4. amuse, please, delight, enchant.
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tick·le   (tĭk'əl)   
v.   tick·led, tick·ling, tick·les

v.   tr.

  1. To touch (the body) lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements.

    1. To tease or excite pleasurably; titillate: suspense that tickles the reader's curiosity.

    2. To fill with mirth or pleasure; delight. See Synonyms at please.

v.   intr.
To feel or cause a tingling sensation.
n.  

  1. The act of tickling.

  2. A tickling sensation.


[Middle English tikelen, perhaps frequentative of ticken, to touch lightly.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
tickled (pink)

  1. mod.
    amused; utterly delighted; pleased. : I am tickled pink you could come this evening.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

tickle 
c.1330 (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" (c.1386) is a translation of L. titillare. Meaning "to touch lightly so as to cause a peculiar and uneasy sensation" is recorded from 1398; that of "to poke or touch so as to excite laughter" is from 1423; fig. sense of "to excite, amuse" is attested from 1688. The noun is recorded from 1801. Ticklish in the lit. sense of "easily tickled" is recorded from 1598, later than the fig. sense (1581); an earlier word for this was tickly (1530). Tickled "pleased, happy" is from 1586.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2tickle
Function: noun
1 : the act of tickling
2 : a tickling sensation tickle inthe throat —Karl Menninger>
3 : something that tickles
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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