Tickle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To touch (the body) lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements.
  • v. To tease or excite pleasurably; titillate: suspense that tickles the reader's curiosity.
  • v. To fill with mirth or pleasure; delight. See Synonyms at please.
  • verb-intransitive. To feel or cause a tingling sensation.
  • n. The act of tickling.
  • n. A tickling sensation.
  • idiom. tickled pink Informal Very pleased; delighted: I was tickled pink by the compliment.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of tickling.
  • n. A feeling resembling the result of tickling.
  • n. A narrow strait.
  • v. To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes the recipient to feel a usually pleasant sensation of tingling or titillation.
  • v. To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.
  • v. To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.
  • v. To cause delight or amusement.
  • adj. Changeable, capricious; insecure.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.
  • v. To please; to gratify; to make joyous.
  • verb-intransitive. To feel titillation.
  • verb-intransitive. To excite the sensation of titillation.
  • adj. Ticklish; easily tickled.
  • adj. Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant.
  • adj. Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A narrow passage or entrance to a harbor.
  • To tease with repeated light touches in some sensitive part, so as to excite the nerves, thereby producing a peculiar thrilling sensation which commonly results in spasmodic laughter, or, if too long continued, in a convulsion; titillate.
  • To touch, affect, or excite agreeably; gratify; please or amuse by gentle appeals to one's imagination, sense of humor, vanity, or the like.
  • To take, move, or produce by touching lightly.
  • To feel titillation: as, his foot tickled.
  • To tingle pleasantly; thrill with gratification or amusement.
  • To have an impatient or uneasy desire to do or to get something; itch; tingle.
  • To produce the sensation of titillation, or the slight nervous excitement of a light touch on some sensitive part.
  • Easily moved; unsteady; unstable; inconstant.
  • n. A light teasing touch in some sensitive part; a gentle tickling act or action.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
  • n. the act of tickling
  • v. touch or stroke lightly
  • n. a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking
  • v. feel sudden intense sensation or emotion
  • Verb Form
    tickled    tickles    tickling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    itch    touch    touching    fondle    caress    cutaneous sensation    haptic sensation    skin sensation    shake up    stir   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    please    gratify    ticklish    uncertain    inconstant    unstable    thrill   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Mikel    Nicol    brickle    ferronickel    fickle    mickle    nickel    nickle    pickle    sickle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    prickle    tickling    tingle    sample-and-hold    gad    flex    itch    prickling    cir