1. touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements; [syn: tickle, titillate, vellicate]
2. feel sudden intense sensation or emotion; - Example: "he was thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine" [syn: thrill, tickle, vibrate]
3. touch or stroke lightly; - Example: "The grass tickled her calves"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tickle \Tic"kle\, a.
1. Ticklish; easily tickled. [Obs.]
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2. Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant. [Obs.]
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The world is now full tickle, sikerly. --Chaucer.
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So tickle is the state of earthy things. --Spenser.
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3. Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest
touch; unstable; easily overthrown. [Obs.]
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Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a
milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it off.
--Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tickle \Tic"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tickled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tickling.] [Perhaps freq. of tick to beat; pat; but cf.
also AS. citelian to tickle, D. kittelen, G. kitzlen, OHG.
chizzil[=o]n, chuzzil[=o]n, Icel. kitla. Cf. Kittle, v. t.]
1. To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling
sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of
spasm which become dangerous if too long protracted.
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If you tickle us, do we not laugh? --Shak.
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2. To please; to gratify; to make joyous.
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Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. --Pope.
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Such a nature
Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow
Which he treads on at noon. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tickle \Tic"kle\, v. i.
1. To feel titillation.
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He with secret joy therefore
Did tickle inwardly in every vein. --Spenser.
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2. To excite the sensation of titillation. --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tickle
n 1: a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking
2: the act of tickling [syn: tickle, tickling,
titillation]
v 1: touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface
nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic
movements [syn: tickle, titillate, vellicate]
2: feel sudden intense sensation or emotion; "he was thrilled by
the speed and the roar of the engine" [syn: thrill,
tickle, vibrate]
3: touch or stroke lightly; "The grass tickled her calves"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
118 Moby Thesaurus words for "tickle":
affect the interest, agitate, amuse, appeal, arouse, attract,
be attractive, beak, becharm, beckon, beguile, bewitch,
blow the coals, brush, bunt, captivate, carry away, charm, chuck,
concern, convulse, dab, delectate, delight, divert, enchant,
engage, enliven, enrapture, enravish, entertain, enthrall,
entrance, excite, excite interest, exhilarate, fan, fan the flame,
fascinate, feed the fire, ferment, fetch, fillip, fire, flick,
flip, flirt, flush, foment, fracture one, freak out, give a thrill,
gratify, graze, heat, heat up, imparadise, impassion, incense,
incite, inflame, instigate, interest, intoxicate, invite,
involve in, kill, knock dead, knock out, loosen up, nettle, pat,
peck, pick, pique, pleasant stimulation, please, provoke,
put up to, raise a laugh, raise a smile, rally, rap, ravish,
recreate, refresh, regale, relax, send, set on, sic on, slay, snap,
solace, stimulate, stir the embers, stir up, summon, tantalize,
tap, tease, tempt, thrill, tickle pink, tickliness, tickling,
ticklishness, tip, titillate, titillation, touch, transport, whet,
whet the appetite, whip up, whisk, work up, wow
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):