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:
[ 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:
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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:
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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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Idiom(s)
ticklenoun [ S ]
uk/ˈtɪk.əl/us/ˈtɪk.əl/tickle noun [ S ] (TOUCH)
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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