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lickle
English
Etymology
Alteration of little. Compare mickle.
Adjective
lickle
- (chiefly Britain, childish or regional) little
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tickle
English
Etymology
From Middle English tiklen, tikelen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a frequentative form of Middle English tikken (“to touch lightly”), thus equivalent to tick +? -le; or perhaps related to Old English tinclian (“to tickle”). Compare North Frisian tigele (“to tickle”) (Hallig dialect), and tiikle (“to tickle”) (Amrum dialect), German dialectal zicklen (“to excite; stir up”). Alternatively, compare Middle English kitlelen ("to tickle"; see kittle), of which tickle might ultimately be a metathetic alteration.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?kl?/
- Rhymes: -?k?l
- Hyphenation: tick?le
Noun
tickle (plural tickles)
- The act of tickling.
- An itchy feeling resembling the result of tickling.
- I have a persistent tickle in my throat.
- (cricket, informal) A light tap of the ball.
- (Newfoundland) A narrow strait.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 169:
- Cow Head itself is a prominent headland connected to the settlement by a natural causeway, or ‘tickle’ as the Newfoundlanders prefer it.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 169:
Translations
Verb
tickle (third-person singular simple present tickles, present participle tickling, simple past and past participle tickled)
- (transitive) To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes laughter, pleasure and twitching.
- He tickled Nancy's tummy, and she started to giggle.
- (transitive) To unexpectedly touch or stroke delicately in a manner which causes displeasure or withdrawal.
- A stranger tickled Nancy's tummy, causing her to scream in fear.
- (intransitive, of a body part) To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.
- My nose tickles, and I'm going to sneeze!
- (transitive) To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.
- (transitive) To cause delight or amusement in.
- He was tickled to receive such a wonderful gift.
- (intransitive) To feel titillation.
- He with secret joy therefore / Did tickle inwardly in every vein.
- (transitive) To catch fish in the hand (usually in rivers or smaller streams) by manually stimulating the fins.
- (archaic) To be excited or heartened.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:tickle.
Synonyms
- kittle
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
tickle (comparative more tickle, superlative most tickle)
- (obsolete) Changeable, capricious; insecure.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:
- So ticle be the termes of mortall state, / And full of subtile sophismes, which do play / With double senses, and with false debate […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:
Anagrams
- Keltic
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