Tickleth vs Ticketh - What's the difference?
tickleth | ticketh |
(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:
(tick)
A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
(computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
(colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
(Australian, NZ, British) a mark () made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement; checkmark
A lifer (bird seen by a birdwatcher for the first time) that is uninteresting and routine, thus merely a tick mark on a list.
The whinchat; so called from its note.
To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.
To make a tick mark.
(informal) To work or operate, especially mechanically.
To strike gently; to pat.
* Latimer
(uncountable) Ticking.
A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
(UK, colloquial) Credit, trust.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 190:
As verbs the difference between tickleth and ticketh
is that tickleth is (tickle) while ticketh is (tick).tickleth
English
Verb
(head)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
*ticketh
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*tick
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from (etyl), compare (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Derived terms
* tick bean * tick trefoilEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- The steady tick of the clock provided a comforting background for the conversation.
- At midday, the long bond is up a tick .
- I'll be back in a tick .
- Indicate that you are willing to receive marketing material by putting a tick in the box
Derived terms
* full as a tick * tick bite * ticker * ticking * tick off * tick over * tick-tack * tick-tockVerb
(en verb)- He took the computer apart to see how it ticked .
- I wonder what makes her tick .
- Stand not ticking and toying at the branches.
Derived terms
* tick all the boxesEtymology 3
From (etyl) (m), probably from (etyl), from (etyl)Noun
Synonyms
* tickingDerived terms
* tickingEtymology 4
From (m)Noun
(en noun)- He paid his mother-in-law rent and, when the baker or the butcher or the grocer wouldn't let her have any more on tick , he paid the bills.