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verb

Tickle v. t. (past & past part. tickled; pres. part. tickling)

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. "If you tickle us, do we not laugh?"

To please; to gratify; to make joyous. "Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw." "Such a nature Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow Which he treads on at noon."

Tickle v. i.

To feel titillation. "He with secret joy therefore Did tickle inwardly in every vein."

To excite the sensation of titillation.

adjective

Tickle adj.

Ticklish; easily tickled. (Obs.)

Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant. (Obs.) "The world is now full tickle, sikerly." "So tickle is the state of earthy things."

Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown. (Obs.) "Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it off."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tickle" Quotes from Famous Books

... even though half the club was stewin' about it. And, someway, that seemed to tickle Chunk and me a lot. We watched him spread his grub out on the cabin table, roll up his sleeves, and square away like he had a good appetite, just as if he'd been all by himself, instead of right here in the midst of so ...

— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... the tree that he might eat its fruits. The transitions, the alternations that measure joy and pain, and diversify human happiness, no longer existed for him. He had so completely glutted his appetites that pleasure must overpass the limits of pleasure to tickle a palate cloyed with satiety, and suddenly grown fastidious beyond all measure, so that ordinary pleasures became distasteful. Conscious that at will he was the master of all the women that he could desire, knowing ...

— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne

... By the sacred substance of John D. Rockefeller's hair-tonic, I hate to think of the money we would have made with the movies! The Crown Prince giving the Papa Wilhelm kiss, while the trap man plays on the melodeon 'It's the Wrong Way to Tickle Mary,' and the Ghost of the Hohenzollern, who ate up her two babies when she found they disturbed her gentleman friend, hovering over the scene like Schumann-Heink in the Rheingold,—I would not release that reel for less ...

— L. P. M. - The End of the Great War • J. Stewart Barney

... two elephants procuring erection by entwining their proboscides, the act being completed by one elephant opening his mouth and allowing the other to tickle the roof of it. (I. Rosse, Virginia Medical Monthly, ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... Other men are as funny as he, perhaps funnier. For when a determined man sets out with a fixed and unshakeable resolve to tickle your fancy, there is no limit to the means he may adopt to catch you unawares, and it shall go hard with him but he extorts from you a laugh, however tardy. Frank Reynolds makes no such desperate efforts. One might ...

— Frank Reynolds, R.I. • A.E. Johnson

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