[syn: tickling, tingling, titillating]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tingle \Tin"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tingled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tingling.] [Freq. of ting. Cf. Tinkle.]
1. To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a
shrill sound.
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At which both the ears of every one that heareth it
shall tingle. --1 Sam. iii.
11.
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2. To feel a sharp, thrilling pain.
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The pale boy senator yet tingling stands. --Pope.
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3. To have, or to cause, a sharp, thrilling sensation, or a
slight pricking sensation.
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They suck pollution through their tingling vein.
--Tickell.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tingling
adj 1: exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or
twitching movements [syn: tickling, tingling,
titillating]
n 1: a somatic sensation as from many tiny prickles [syn:
prickling, tingle, tingling]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "tingling":
agog, algetic, angry, aquiver, aroused, atingle, atwitter, bang,
boot, burn, burning, burning pain, bursting, buzz, carried away,
chafed, change ringing, charge, chime, chiming, chink, clang,
clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, clink, ding, ding-a-ling,
dingdong, dinging, dingle, donging, ebullient, effervescent,
excited, exhilarated, festering, fiery, fire, fired, flush, galled,
high, hopped up, impassioned, inflamed, irritated, jangle, jingle,
jingle-jangle, jingling, jollies, keyed up, kick, knell, knelling,
lathered up, lift, manic, moved, paresthesia, peal, peal ringing,
pealing, pins and needles, prickle, prickles, prickling, prickly,
quiver, rankling, raw, ready to burst, red, ring, ringing, roused,
rush, rush of emotion, sensation, sensitive, shiver, shudder,
smart, smarting, sore, sounding, steamed up, stimulated, sting,
stinging, stirred, stirred up, surge of emotion, tender, thrill,
thrilled, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingly, tink, tinkle,
tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabular, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulous,
titillation, toll, tolling, tremor, tremor of excitement,
turned-on, urtication, whipped up, worked up, wrought up, yeasty