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tingle | thorn |

As a verb tingle

is to have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation or tingle can be to ring.

As a noun tingle

is a prickling or stinging sensation.

As a proper noun thorn is

for someone living near a thorn bush.

tingle

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(tingl)
  • To have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
  • To make ringing sounds, to twang.
  • *1851 ,
  • *:Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • sharp tingling bells

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A prickling or stinging sensation.

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (tingl)
  • To ring
  • To cause to ring
  • * 1874 , , fit 2:
    • the Captain they trusted so well
    Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
    And that was to tingle his bell.

    Anagrams

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    thorn

    English

    (wikipedia thorn)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sharp protective spine of a plant.
  • Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns.
    • the white thorn'''; the cockspur '''thorn
  • (figurative) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
  • * Bible, 2 Corinthians xii. 7
    • There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.
  • * South
    • The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares, / Be only mine.
  • A letter of the Latin alphabet (capital:'' Þ''', ''small:'' '''þ'''), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English '' '''th igh
  • * See also Etymology of ye (definite article).

    • Derived terms

    * thorn apple * thorn broom * thornbush * thorn devil * thorn hopper * thorn in one's side * Thornton * thorny

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pierce with, or as if with, a
  • * {{quote-book, year=1869, author=, title=Old Town Folks citation
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  • * {{quote-book, year=2003, author=Scott D. Zachary, title=Scorn This, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=HELSK5JtSbMC&pg=PA175, page=175
    • , passage=Even Judge Bradley's callused sentiments were thorned by the narration of Jaclyn's journals.}}

    See also

    * eth, edh, * wynn, wen, *

    Anagrams

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