tickled English
Verb
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(tickle)
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tickle English
(tickling)
Noun
( en noun)
The act of tickling.
A feeling resembling the result of tickling.
- I have a persistent tickle in my throat.
(Newfoundland) A narrow strait.
* 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 169:
- Cow Head itself is a prominent headland connected to the settlement by a natural causeway, or ‘tickle ’ as the Newfoundlanders prefer it.
Verb
( tickl)
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.
* Shakespeare
- If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
(of a body part) To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.
- My nose tickles , and I'm going to sneeze!
To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.
To cause delight or amusement in.
- He was tickled to receive such a wonderful gift.
* Alexander Pope
- Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
* Shakespeare
- Such a nature / Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow / Which he treads on at noon.
To feel titillation.
* Spenser
- He with secret joy therefore / Did tickle inwardly in every vein.
Derived terms
(terms derived from the verb "tickle")
* tickle someone's fancy
* tickle the dragon's tail
* tickle the ivories
* tickle pink
* tickler
* ticklish
* tickly
Adjective
( en adjective)
Changeable, capricious; insecure.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
- So ticle be the termes of mortall state, / And full of subtile sophismes, which do play / With double senses, and with false debate [...].
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stickled English
Verb
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(stickle)
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stickle English
Verb
( en-verb)
(obsolete) To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.
To argue or struggle (for).
* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
- ‘She has other people than poor little you to think about, and has gone abroad with them; so you needn't be in the least afraid she'll stickle this time for her rights.’
To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.
(obsolete) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
* Drayton
- Which [question] violently they pursue, / Nor stickled would they be.
(obsolete) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening.
* Sir Philip Sidney
- They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray.
(obsolete) To separate combatants by intervening.
* Dryden
- When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the race of fiends.
(obsolete) To contend, contest, or altercate, especially in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
* Hudibras
- Fortune, as she's wont, turned fickle, / And for the foe began to stickle .
* Dryden
- for paltry punk they roar and stickle
* Hazlitt
- the obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong
Related terms
* stickler
Noun
( en noun)
(UK, dialect) A shallow rapid in a river.
(UK, dialect) The current below a waterfall.
* W. Browne
- Patient anglers, standing all the day / Near to some shallow stickle or deep bay.
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