Tickled vs Nudged - What's the difference?
tickled | nudged |
(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:
(nudge)
A gentle push.
(Internet) A feature of instant messaging software used to get the attention of another user, as by shaking the conversation window or playing a sound.
(fruit machines) The rotation by one step of a reel of the player's choice.
To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal.
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To near or come close to something.
As verbs the difference between tickled and nudged
is that tickled is past tense of tickle while nudged is past tense of nudge.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
*nudged
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*nudge
English
Noun
(en noun)- Since the machine was showing two lemons and a cherry, I decided to try a nudge .
Verb
(nudg)citation, passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges ” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}