Tickled


verb (used with object), tickled, tickling.
1.
to touch or stroke lightly with the fingers, a feather, etc., so as to excite a tingling or itching sensation in; titillate.
2.
to poke some sensitive part of the body so as to excite spasmodic laughter.
3.
to excite agreeably; gratify:
to tickle someone’s vanity.
4.
to excite amusement in:
The clown’s antics really tickled the kids.
5.
to get, move, etc., by or as by tickling:
She tickled him into saying yes.
verb (used without object), tickled, tickling.
6.
to be affected with a tingling or itching sensation, as from light touches or strokes:
I tickle all over.
7.
to produce such a sensation.
noun
8.
an act or instance of tickling.
9.
a tickling sensation.
Idioms
10.
tickled pink, Informal. greatly pleased:
She was tickled pink that someone had remembered her birthday.
verb
1.
to touch, stroke, or poke (a person, part of the body, etc) so as to produce pleasure, laughter, or a twitching sensation
2.
(transitive) to excite pleasurably; gratify
3.
(transitive) to delight or entertain (often in the phrase tickle one’s fancy)
4.
(intransitive) to itch or tingle
5.
(transitive) to catch (a fish, esp a trout) by grasping it with the hands and gently moving the fingers into its gills
6.
(informal) tickle pink, tickle to death, to please greatly: he was tickled pink to be elected president
noun
7.
a sensation of light stroking or itching
8.
the act of tickling
9.
(Canadian) (in the Atlantic Provinces) a narrow strait
tickety-boo
ticket, the

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