单词 | to tickle to death |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > please or give pleasure to [verb (transitive)] i-quemec893 ywortheOE queemeOE likeOE likeOE paya1200 gamec1225 lustc1230 apaya1250 savoura1300 feastc1300 comfort1303 glew1303 pleasec1350 ticklec1386 feedc1400 agreea1413 agreec1425 emplessc1450 gree1468 applease1470 complaire1477 enjoy1485 warm1526 to claw the ears1549 content1552 pleasure1556 oblect?1567 relish1567 gratify1569 sweeta1575 promerit1582 tinkle1582 tastea1586 aggrate1590 gratulatea1592 greeta1592 grace1595 arride1600 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. < as lemmas |
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