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tick·le

(tĭk′əl)

v. tick·led, tick·ling, tick·les

v.tr.

1. To touch (the body) lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements.

a. To tease or excite pleasurably; titillate: suspense that tickles the reader's curiosity.

b. To fill with mirth or pleasure; delight.

v.intr.

To feel or cause a tingling sensation.

1. The act of tickling.

2. A tickling sensation.

Idiom:

tickled pink Informal

Very pleased; delighted: I was tickled pink by the compliment.

[Middle English tikelen, perhaps frequentative of ticken, to touch lightly.]

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tickled

adjective

Eagerly compliant:

delighted, glad, happy, pleased.

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solleticato

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Then the wicked sprite laughed till he almost choked, for all this tickled his fancy.

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Their psychology is bovine, their outlook crude and rare; They abandon vital matters to be tickled with a straw; But the straw that they were tickled with--the chaff that they were fed with-- They convert into a weaver's beam to break their foeman's head with.

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"Mademoiselle Nioche is welcome to be tickled by my curiosity, and to know that I am tickled that she is tickled.

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