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单词 to tickle to death
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to tickle to death
3. Said of a thing, or impersonally with it: To excite agreeably (a person, his heart, ears, palate, etc.); to give pleasure or amusement to; to please, gratify. to tickle to death: cf. death n. Phrases 1b. Also in colloquial phrase to tickle pink, to delight; to overcome with pleasure or amusement. Cf. sense 5.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > please or give pleasure to [verb (transitive)]
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likeOE
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savoura1300
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comfort1303
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tinkle1582
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complease1604
honey1604
agrade1611
oblectate1611
oblige1652
placentiate1694
flatter1695
to shine up to1882
fancy-
the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > affect with pleasurable excitement [verb (transitive)] > titillate
kittlea1340
ticklec1386
tingle1572
titillate1620
titivate1833
the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > please or give pleasure to [verb (transitive)] > overcome with pleasure
to tickle to death1834
to tickle pink1922
kill1938
c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 471 It tikleth [v.rr. tikeleth, tykelith, ticleþ] me aboute myn herte roote.
1406 T. Hoccleve La Male Regle 204 So tikelid me þat nyce reuerence þat it me made larger of despense.
1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. (W. de W.) xviii. i. Y j/1 By gendrynge hete tyklyth and pryckyth: that falleth moost in spryngynge tyme whan the vertue of ye hete of heuen begynnyþ to haue maystry of bodyes of beestys.
1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 7 More for desire of imitation, then of anie intent to tyckle hym with adulation.
1607 S. Hieron Back-parts of Iehouah in Wks. (1620) I. 166 Well might they..haue their eares ticled with some pleasing noise.
1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. I. 33 Eating in Egypt was designed, not to tickle the palate, but to satisfy the cravings of nature.
1834 C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing, Major xxv. 188 It has tickled me eny most to death.
1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. II. 169 They was so tickled tu git him among 'em.
1859 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. II. 233 Something..that thrilled and tickled my heart with a feeling partly sensuous and partly spiritual.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. v. 50 Elements that..tickled gossiping curiosity, and fascinated timorous superstition.
1907 St. Nicholas May 607/1 I'm tickled to death to find some one with what they call human emotions.
1922 ‘G. Emery’ in A. H. Quinn Contemp. Amer. Plays 238 He'll be tickled pink.
1939 W. Fortescue There's Rosemary xlvi. 268 Knowing the great artist, he had hopes that my rather cheeky suggestion might ‘tickle him to death’.
1948 F. A. Iremonger William Temple xxiv. 416 An American delegate who sat opposite Temple at the table—‘Archbishop, you tickle me pink!’
1950 P. G. Wodehouse Nothing Serious 29 Your view, then, is that he is tickled pink to be freed from his obligations?
1976 Scottish Daily Express 23 Dec. 8/7 We are tickled pink that we were able to come home to do the concert at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.
1977 E. Leonard Unknown Man No. 89 xvi. 141 ‘I'm tickled to death I'm talking to you,’ Mr. Perez said..smiling into the telephone.
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