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▪ I. tickling, vbl. n.|ˈtɪklɪŋ|
[f. tickle v. + -ing1.]
The action or condition denoted by the verb tickle.
1. An uneasy sensation as of the teasing of some sensitive part of the skin or mucous membrane; slight nervous irritation akin to itching.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxviii. (Bodl. MS.) lf. 16/1 Þe whiche wormes litel & litel wroteþ and eteþ þe skyn & makeþ tikeling and icching. c1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 61 When-someuer þe pacient feleþ tyklyng or ychyng or prykkyng in þe lure. 1626Bacon Sylva §766 All tickling is a light motion of the spirits, which the thinness of the skin, and suddenness and rareness of the touch do further. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xx. 242 A sensation of tickling in the mucous membrane of the trachea. 1898J. Hutchinson in Arch. Surg. IX. No. 36. 341 He had some tickling in his throat.
2. fig. A tingling or ‘itching’ to do something; uneasy desire, craving, hankering.
1553Short Catech. in Liturgies, etc. (Parker Soc.) 521 Our will is commonly by tickling of affections and stirring of lusts, drawn to do those things that God is displeased with. 1558Knox First Blast (Arb.) 24 Women haue in them selues a tickling and studie of vaine glorie. 1683Burnet tr. More's Utopia (1685) 101 These Things may create some Tickling in the Senses. 1874Geo. Eliot Coll. Breakf. P. 628 Whose brain..Has feeble ticklings of a vanity.
3. a. A repeated light touching, stroking, or poking, such as to cause laughter; a state of being tickled; fig. pleasing excitation, gratification; also, excitement of the risible faculty, amusement.
1423Jas. I Kingis Q. xxi, With the tiklyng of his hete and light, The tender flouris opnyt thame and sprad. c1440Promp. Parv. 493/2 Tykyllynge, titillacio. 1548Udall Erasm. Par. Pref. 3 The pleasaunt ticleyng or clawyng of adulacion. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 311 They who naturally are enclined and disposed to laughter, are to avoid and decline the ticklings and soft handling in those parts of the body that are most smooth, sleicke and tender. 1662Playford Skill Mus. i. xi. (1674) 39 A certain tickling of the ears of those who do not well understand what it is to sing Passionately. 1728Young Love Fame ii. (1757) 94 Tickling is unsafe, If still 'tis painful while it makes us laugh. 1872Darwin Emotions viii. 201 This so-called tickling of the mind is curiously analogous with that of the body.
†b. Used as a term of endearment. Obs. rare.
1605B. Jonson Volpone iii. v, Thou art mine honor, Mosca, and my pride, My ioy, my tickling, my delight!
c. spec. The taking of trout and other fish by the method described in quot. 1884.
a1616Beaum. & Fl. Scornf. Lady iii. ii, Leave off your tickling of young heirs like trouts. 1826Scott Woodst. vii, Every fisher loves best the trouts that are of his own tickling. 1884Jefferies Red Deer ix. 174 Groping for trout (or tickling)—is tracing it to the stone it lies under, then rubbing it gently beneath, which causes the fish to gradually move backwards into the hand, till the fingers suddenly close in the gills.
4. attrib., as tickling-house, (satirical slang) a place of preaching: cf. tickle-text (tickle v. 10); tickling stick joc., a feather duster or similar device used as a comedian's prop.
1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 29 (1713) I. 192 A Boy that has but..carried his Mistress's Bible to the Tickling-house. 1969Listener 6 Mar. 299/2 Beneath your tickling stick and candy floss came Heath and Wilson and Woodcock. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Oct. 1198/5 Hints of the tickling-stick [in a performance of Peer Gynt] vulgarized the first meeting with Solveig. 1983Sun 8 June 4/4 Ken Dodd painted his famous tickling stick blue yesterday for a Liverpool walkabout in support of Mrs Thatcher.
▪ II. ˈtickling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That tickles, in various senses of the verb; exciting pleasantly, gratifying, alluring; amusing, diverting; delicate, tingling, itching; ticklish.
1558T. Phaer æneid i. B iij b, In her brest the tykling ioye her hart to myrth enclynes. 1595Shakes. John ii. i. 573 That smooth-fac'd Gentleman, tickling commoditie. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 475 The tickling or itching humor, lying betwixt the skin and the flesh, causeth the poor Sheep either to bite the place with his teeth,..or to rub it upon a tree or wall. 1675Crowne Country Wit i. i, Fie upon this tickling rheum! 1681(title) Some Observations upon the Tickling Querie, viz. Whether the admitting of a Popish Successor be the best way to Preserve the Protestant Religion [etc.]. 1761Pulteney in Phil. Trans. LII. 346 A little tickling cough which had remained with him. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola ix, Such vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs, with tickling importunity. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. 30 One evening..a short tickling cough surprised me.
Hence ˈticklingly adv., so as to tickle.
1898J. A. Steuart Minister of State i. iv, He smacked his lips and laughed again;..the recollections of his aunt's choler [were] ticklingly comical. |