Definitions for tickle

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tickle tick·le

Spelling: [tik-uh l]

IPA: /ˈtɪk əl/

Tickle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in tickle (ceiklt).

Definitions for tickle

noun

1. an act or instance of tickling.
2. a tickling sensation.

Idioms

1. tickled pink, Informal. greatly pleased:

verb (used with object)

1. to touch or stroke lightly with the fingers, a feather, etc., so as to excite a tingling or itching sensation in; titillate.
2. to poke some sensitive part of the body so as to excite spasmodic laughter.
3. to excite agreeably; gratify:
4. to excite amusement in:
5. to get, move, etc., by or as by tickling:

verb (used without object)

1. to be affected with a tingling or itching sensation, as from light touches or strokes:
2. to produce such a sensation.

Origin of tickle

1300-50; Middle English tikelen, frequentative of tick¹ (in obsolete sense) to touch lightly

Examples for tickle

And like a tickle in the throat before a cough or the awful urge to sneeze, it comes: the morbid desire to stare at the shame.

Jimmie had brought her through the tickle without knowing it.

Because we have all felt that little tug, tickle, or impulse to be antiseptically and impersonally naughty?

The interview ends in a dance party giggle-fit of “tickle Me Elmo” proportions.

Guys, it distinctly says “tickle me” Elmo, not “hand-to-hand combat over me” Elmo.

A “tickle” is a narrow passage of water between two islands.

At night he would rub his unshaven cheek on Sue's small cheek and tickle her.

Best Moment: When Galifianakis attempts to make Cera tickle his thigh (with disappointing results).

There is nothing I am fonder of—— Sometimes I tickle the soles of my feet with it.

Sometimes she'd sit down to tickle her neck with her hind-feet.