Tickle

Noun

 * 1) The act of tickling.
 * 2) A feeling resembling the result of tickling.
 * I have a persistent tickle in my throat.

Verb

 * 1)  To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes the recipient to feel a usually pleasant sensation of tingling or titillation.
 * He tickled Nancy's tummy, and she started to giggle.
 * 1)  To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.
 * My nose tickles, and I'm going to sneeze!
 * 1)  To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.
 * 2)  To cause delight or amusement.
 * He was tickled to receive such a wonderful gift.

Derived terms

 * tickle someone's fancy
 * tickle the ivories
 * tickle pink


 * tickler
 * ticklish
 * tickly

Adjective

 * 1) Changeable, capricious; insecure.
 * 2) *1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
 * So tickle be the termes of mortall state, / And full of subtile sophismes, which do play / With double senses, and with false debate [...].

Adverbs for Tickle
humorously; boisterously; playfully; teasingly; verbally; rudely; roughly; clownishly.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
tikelen:, related to tinclian:

Verb

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 * Chinese:
 * Gan:
 * Mandarin: 胳肢
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 * Italian:, titillare
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese: c%C3%B3cega
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, пощекотать
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: голицати
 * Roman: golicati
 * Sicilian: cadugghiari
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: kittla
 * Urdu:


 * Finnish: kutista, kutiaa


 * Finnish: kiinnostaa


 * Finnish: jännittää, innostaa

Anagrams

 * Keltic