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单词 tickle
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tickleverb

uk/ˈtɪk.əl/us/ˈtɪk.əl/

tickle verb (RUB SKIN)

[ T ] to touch someone lightly with your fingers, making them slightly uncomfortable and often making them laugh:

Stop! You're tickling me!
I tickled her feet and she laughed.

[ I or T ] If a part of the body tickles, or if something tickles it, it feels slightly uncomfortable and you want to rub it:

My nose is tickling, I think I'm going to sneeze.

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Scratching and rubbing

  • abrade
  • abrasion
  • chafe
  • erode
  • grate
  • graze
  • grind
  • rasp
  • rub
  • rub sth/sb down
  • rubdown
  • scour
  • scour sth out
  • scrape
  • scratch
  • smooth
  • towel
  • wear
  • wear (sth) away

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tickle verb (PLEASE)

[ T often passive ] informal If something tickles you, you find it funny or it makes you happy:

old-fashioned I was tickled pink (= very happy) to hear the news.

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Causing pleasure

  • agreeable
  • all things to all people idiom
  • attractive
  • banging
  • be better than sex idiom
  • brighten
  • delicacy
  • do sb the world of good idiom
  • dreamy
  • ducky
  • enchant
  • engaging
  • jolly
  • keep on the right side of sb idiom
  • keep sb sweet idiom
  • knock
  • leafy
  • lighten
  • lovely
  • quench

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Humour & humorous

Idiom(s)

tickle sb's fancy

ticklenoun [ S ]

uk/ˈtɪk.əl/us/ˈtɪk.əl/

tickle noun [ S ] (TOUCH)

give sb a tickle

to tickle someone

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Colds & flu

  • bunged up
  • chesty
  • chill
  • cold
  • congested
  • cough
  • coughing fit
  • flu
  • frog
  • hacking cough
  • have a frog in your throat idiom
  • head cold
  • runny
  • sneeze
  • sniff
  • sniffle
  • snuffle
  • stuffed up
  • swine flu
  • the common cold

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tickle noun [ S ] (COUGH)

an unpleasant feeling in your throat that makes you want to cough

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Colds & flu

  • bunged up
  • chesty
  • chill
  • cold
  • congested
  • cough
  • coughing fit
  • flu
  • frog
  • hacking cough
  • have a frog in your throat idiom
  • head cold
  • runny
  • sneeze
  • sniff
  • sniffle
  • snuffle
  • stuffed up
  • swine flu
  • the common cold

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