different between tickle vs ickle

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)

1. The act of tickling.
2. An itchy feeling resembling the result of tickling.

   I have a persistent tickle in my throat.

3. (cricket, informal) A light tap of the ball.
4. (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.

Translations

Verb

tickle (third-person singular simple present tickles, present participle tickling, simple past and past participle tickled)

1. (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.
2. (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.

3. (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!

4. (transitive) To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.
5. (transitive) To cause delight or amusement in.

   He was tickled to receive such a wonderful gift.
6. (intransitive) To feel titillation.

   • He with secret joy therefore / Did tickle inwardly in every vein.

7. (transitive) To catch fish in the hand (usually in rivers or smaller streams) by manually stimulating the fins.
8. (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)

1. (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 […]

Anagrams

• Keltic

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English ikil, ykle, from Old English ?i?el (“icicle, ice”), from Proto-Germanic *jikilaz, *jekulaz (“piece of ice”), diminutive of *jekô (“lump of ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?yeg-. Cognate with Low German Jäkel (“icicle”), Danish egel (“icicle”), Norwegian jøkel (“glacier, icesheet”), Icelandic jökull (“glacier”), Swedish jökel (“glacier”) and probably Albanian akull (“ice”) (Gheg okull).

Alternative forms

• eckle

Noun

ickle (plural ickles)

1. (dialectal) An icicle.

Derived terms

• icicle

Etymology 2

Childish pronunciation of little.

Adjective

ickle (comparative ickler, superlative icklest)

1. (childish) Little. [from mid-19th C.]

Anagrams

• Celik, Elick, Leick