Vellicate - What does it mean?
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To touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.
* Roald Dahl, The Way Up to Heaven
to irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear.
To pinch.
To cause to twitch.
* Arbuthnot
vellicate
English
Verb
(vellicat)- It was nothing much - just a tiny vellicating muscle in the corner of the left eye
- Smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth.
- Convulsions, arising from something vellicating a nerve in its extremity, are not very dangerous.