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单词 tickle
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tickle

/ˈtɪk(ə)l /
verb [with object]
1Lightly touch or prod (a person or a part of the body) in a way that causes mild discomfort or itching and often laughter: I tickled him under the ears...
  • She squealed with laughter as I started tickling her.
  • I smiled as we kissed, her touch tickling me slightly.
  • I collapsed in laughter and began tickling him in earnest.

Synonyms

stroke, pet, lightly touch, lightly prod, chuck
archaic titillate
1.1 [no object] (Of a part of the body) have a sensation of mild irritation or discomfort: his throat had stopped tickling...
  • It feels like a strange prickling sensation, and it tickles around my arms.
  • I wanted him to stop, but it tickled so much that I couldn't help but laugh.
  • On some days though when you step outside your throat tickles slightly and your eyes water, often so little that you barely realize it.
1.2Catch (a trout) by lightly rubbing it so that it moves backwards into the hand: the skill of a poacher tickling a trout...
  • We arrived in Clapham, a cheerful start, with screeching children playing on the beck banks as a teacher splashed them while pretending to show how to tickle a trout.
  • Forget any romantic notions of setting horse hair traps for rabbits in the pale dawn and then settling down to tickle trout from the mossy banks of the stream.
2Appeal to (someone’s taste, curiosity, etc.): here are a couple of anecdotes that might tickle your fancy...
  • It was hard to say why anymore - at first it had been a joke, a game, and then because something about his friend's reserve tickled his curiosity.
  • To tickle your taste buds, the food festival offers a wide range of dishes, including pastas, salads, soups, desserts and pizzas.
  • These spicy and saucy ribs will tickle your taste buds and keep you coming back for more.

Synonyms

stimulate, interest, appeal to, excite, arouse, captivate
2.1Cause (someone) amusement or pleasure: he is tickled by the idea...
  • ‘We've found that people are tickled by the idea of seeing such a familiar, everyday product used in a novel way,’ says Miller.
  • I was tickled by the idea of making a film for posterity.
  • I was always thinking that you were already my brother-in-law, and the idea just tickled me.

Synonyms

amuse, entertain, divert, please, delight, gladden, cheer up, satisfy, gratify
informal tickle someone pink
noun [in singular]
1An act of tickling someone: Dad gave my chin a little tickle...
  • He seemed glad of the company after a long, dark winter and was soon swimming through my legs and even accepting a tickle under the chin.
  • She felt his soft kiss and the tickle of his long hair on her cheek.
  • He'd make humorous, taunting faces or just out-do her hits with an unserious blow or a tickle.

Synonyms

stroke, pet, light prod, chuck
archaic titillation
1.1A sensation like that of being lightly touched or prodded: I had a tickle between my shoulder blades...
  • The point barely touched her skin; she only felt a small tickle.
  • It's a barely noticeable sensation, just a whisper of a tickle.
  • I can't remember if Holly tucked both arms under and anyway, what if he wanted to itch a tickle on his nose?

Phrases

be tickled pink (or to death)

tickle the ivories

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'be delighted or thrilled'): perhaps a frequentative of tick1, or an alteration of Scots and dialect kittle 'to tickle' (compare with kittle1).

  • tick from Middle English:

    The tick shown as a ✓ first meant ‘to pat, touch’ and goes back to medieval English, where it was related to tickle (Middle English), although its history is obscure. This is also the tick used to imitate the sound of a clock, and in ticker, or the heart, a sense first used in the USA at the end of the 19th century. The ‘bloodsucking parasite’ sort of tick is a different, older word which gives us the expressions tight as a tick or as full as a tick for ‘very drunk’, both of which refer to the way ticks swell as they gorge themselves on blood. Both forms of the phrase have the additional meaning ‘be full after eating’, but the more recent tight as a tick plays on two senses of tight, which can mean both ‘drunk’ and ‘stretched taut’. When you buy on credit or on tick, you are using yet another word, which is an abbreviation of ticket. The ticket in question is an IOU promising to pay the money due, but there is also the suggestion of a pun on the reputation of moneylenders as ‘bloodsucking parasites’. Both on tick and on the ticket date back to the 17th century.

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