Tickle vs Ich - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between tickle and ich

is that tickle is the act of tickling while ich is bleeding inside the skull.

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.

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.

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 * 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 [...].

Anagrams

ich

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ich, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), , (l)

Pronoun

(head)

(personal, obsolete) I.

* 1529 , John Skelton, Elynour Rummyng :

"Behold," she sayd, "and se How bright I am of ble! Ich am not cast away, That can my husband say, [...]"

* 1561 , John Awdelay, The fraternitye of vacabondes :

My maysters, ich am an old man, and halfe blinde, [...]

* 1568 , Thomas Howell, Arbor of Amitie :

With cap and knee, ich' will serve thee, what should ' ich more declare.

* 1645 , Thomas Davies, The Somersetshire Man's Complaint :

Dost thinke 'ch'ill labor to be poore, No no, '''ich''' haue a-doe..' Ich will a plundering too.

* 1706 , Edward Phillips, The New World of English Words :

Ich , a Word us'd for I in the Western Parts of England.

Usage notes

Ich'' was the form of ''I found in the dialects of the West Country, West Midlands, and Kent. It began to disappear from written English with the onset of the Chancery Standard in the 15th century, yet continued to see limited use through the middle of the 19th century. The Northern dialectal form, ik (which derives from the same Old English root), likewise disappeared from writing with the onset of the Chancery Standard in the 15th century.

Derived terms

* (l)

Etymology 2

Noun

(-)

(ichthyology) Ichthyophthiriasis, a parasitic infection of freshwater fish caused by the ciliate .

* {{quote-book, 1996, Edward J. Noga, Fish Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment, publisher=Iowa State University Press (2000), pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=SAdDtT7YRRoC&pg=PA95&dq=ich, isbn=0-8138-2558-X, page=95

, passage=Ich is one of the most common diseases of freshwater fish.}}

Anagrams

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