tickle
IPA: tˈɪkʌɫ
noun
- The act of tickling.
- An itchy feeling resembling the result of tickling.
- (cricket, informal) A light tap of the ball.
- (Newfoundland) A narrow strait.
- A habitational surname from Old English.
verb
- (transitive) To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes laughter, pleasure and twitching.
- (transitive) To unexpectedly touch or stroke delicately in a manner which causes displeasure or withdrawal.
- (intransitive, of a body part) To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.
- (transitive) To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.
- (transitive) To cause delight or amusement in.
- (intransitive) To feel titillation.
- (transitive) To catch fish in the hand (usually in rivers or smaller streams) by manually stimulating the fins.
- (archaic) To be excited or heartened.
adjective
- (obsolete) Changeable, capricious; insecure.
adverb
- Insecurely, precariously, unstably.
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Examples of "tickle" in Sentences
- Both times the infection started with a little 'tickle' in my skin.
- Check below and see if any of the week's new titles tickle your fancy.
- Bolton needs to stop trying to "tickle" Cheney with that moustache ... lol cheryl
- The word "tickle" comes from the Middle English tickelen, which it's believed came from ticken, to touch lightly.
- Then, once home, he touched the spot where the 'tickle' was and I could feel, and he could see, that it was nothing.
- This defense of evidential decision theory is called the tickle defense because it assumes that an introspected condition screens off the correlation between choice and prediction.
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