Feet vs Tickle - What's the difference?
feet | tickle |
(foot).
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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=14 (lb) Fact; performance; feat.
The act of tickling.
A feeling resembling the result of tickling.
(Newfoundland) A narrow strait.
* 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 169:
To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes the recipient to feel a usually pleasant sensation of tingling or titillation.
* Shakespeare
(of a body part) To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.
To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.
To cause delight or amusement in.
* Alexander Pope
* Shakespeare
To feel titillation.
* Spenser
Changeable, capricious; insecure.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
As nouns the difference between feet and tickle
is that feet is (foot) while tickle is the act of tickling.As a verb tickle is
to touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes the recipient to feel a usually pleasant sensation of tingling or titillation.As an adjective tickle is
changeable, capricious; insecure.feet
English
Noun
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Derived terms
* a closed mouth gathers no feet * crow's-feet * cubic feet * drag one's feet * fall on one's feet * fall over one's feet * feet first * feet of clay * feet first * feetless * feetlong * find one's feet * flat feet * get cold feet * get one's feet wet * have one's feet on the ground * hold someone's feet to the fire * itchy feet * land on one's feet * metric feet * on one's feet * out on one's feet * put one's feet up * puppy feet * quick on his feet * six feet under * stand on one's own two feet * stocking-feet * think on one's feet * two left feet * vote with one's feet * washing of feet * See alsoStatistics
*Anagrams
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English
(tickling)Noun
(en noun)- I have a persistent tickle in my throat.
- Cow Head itself is a prominent headland connected to the settlement by a natural causeway, or ‘tickle ’ as the Newfoundlanders prefer it.
Verb
(tickl)- He tickled Nancy's tummy, and she started to giggle.
- If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
- My nose tickles , and I'm going to sneeze!
- He was tickled to receive such a wonderful gift.
- Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
- Such a nature / Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow / Which he treads on at noon.
- He with secret joy therefore / Did tickle inwardly in every vein.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "tickle")Derived terms
(terms derived from the verb "tickle") * tickle someone's fancy * tickle the dragon's tail * tickle the ivories * tickle pink * tickler * ticklish * ticklyAdjective
(en adjective)- So ticle be the termes of mortall state, / And full of subtile sophismes, which do play / With double senses, and with false debate [...].
