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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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"Tickle" Quotes from Famous Books

... did not do so. He merely marked time, deriving a grim amusement at the way his popularity grew as his currency dwindled. It was a game, enjoyable so long as it lasted. Egotistical he knew himself to be, but it was a conscious fault; to tickle his own vanity filled him with the same satisfaction a cat feels at having its back rubbed, and he excused himself by reasoning that his deceit harmed nobody. Meanwhile, with feline alertness he waited ...

— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach

... is an object of horror and fright to every passer-by. It is her nature to look out for a companion, and she is said always to choose that member of a family whom she liked best during her lifetime. She will then come at night and embrace him and tickle him under the arms, making him laugh till he dies. Bhula or the wanderers are the shades of persons who have died an unnatural death, either having been murdered, hanged, or killed by a tiger. They all keep the scars of their respective wounds and one can imagine ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV - Kumhar-Yemkala • R.V. Russell

... "Tickle-tickle!" she cried, with some of that irrepressible animal spirit of hers, and leaning to brush his ear ...

— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst

... of good solid Edifying Port, at honest George's, made a Night cheerful, and threw off Reserve. But this plaguy French Claret will not only cost us more Money but do us less good." Hearne had a poor opinion of "Captain Steele," and of "one Tickle: this Tickle is a pretender to poetry." He admits that, though "Queen's people are angry at the Spectator, and the common-room say 'tis silly dull stuff, men that are indifferent commend it highly, as it deserves." Some other satirist ...

— Oxford • Andrew Lang

... kind of a kid, after all, Billy," said Chet Belding. "Even if you are full of tickle," and he grinned ...

— The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna - or, The Crew That Won • Gertrude W. Morrison

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