To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.
To please; to gratify; to make joyous.
To feel titillation.
To excite the sensation of titillation.
Ticklish; easily tickled.
Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant.
Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? William Shakespeare
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. Charles Lamb
The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care. Chris Brown
I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers. James Wolcott
tickle in Danish is kildre
tickle in Dutch is kriebelen, kietelen
tickle in Finnish is kutittaa
tickle in French is chatouiller
tickle in German is kitzeln, kitzeln, kitzele
tickle in Italian is solleticare
tickle in Norwegian is kile
tickle in Spanish is cosquillas, hacer cosquillas
tickle in Swedish is kittling, kittla
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