Tickled vs Pierced - What's the difference?
tickled | pierced |
(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:
(pierce)
to puncture; to break through
* Dryden
to create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry
to break or interrupt abruptly
(figurative) To penetrate; to affect deeply.
* Alexander Pope
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between tickled and pierced
is that tickled is (tickle) while pierced is (pierce).tickled
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(head)Anagrams
*tickle
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(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
*pierced
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Verb
(head)pierce
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Verb
- The diver pierced the surface of the water with scarcely a splash.
- to pierce''' the enemy's line; a shot '''pierced the ship
- I pierce her tender side.
- Can you believe he pierced his tongue?
- A scream pierced the darkness.
- to pierce a mystery
- pierced with grief
- Can no prayers pierce thee?