Tickled vs Blissful - What's the difference?
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(tickle)
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:
Extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.
* 1738 , , "London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal", lines 25-26,
* 1868 , , Little Women , ch. 27,
* 1983 , James Hijiya, "American Gravestones and Attitudes toward Death: A Brief History," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society , vol. 127, no. 5., page 349,
(obsolete) Blessed; glorified.
* c1387 , , "The Prioress' Tale," in The Canterbury Tales ,
Tickled is a related term of blissful.
As a verb tickled
is (tickle).As an adjective blissful is
extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss.tickled
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*tickle
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 [...].
Anagrams
*blissful
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Alternative forms
* blissfull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew,
- And call Britannia's glories back to view;
- She ... led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world.
- New England carvers between the 1720s and the 1750s transformed, step by step, the winged skull into the winged face, adding flesh to bare bone and turning the toothy grin of death into the blissful smile of a saved soul.
- Thus had this widow her little son y-taught
- Our blissful Lady, Christe's mother dear,
- To worship aye