tickled
past simple and past participle oftickle
tickle
verb
uk/ˈtɪk.əl/us/ˈtɪk.əl/tickleverb(RUB SKIN)
[T]
totouchsomeonelightlywithyourfingers, making themslightlyuncomfortableand often making themlaugh:
Stop! You're tickling me!
I tickled herfeetand shelaughed.
[IorT]
If apartof thebodytickles, or if something tickles it, itfeelsslightlyuncomfortableand youwanttorubit:
Mynoseis tickling, IthinkI'm going tosneeze.
Scratching and rubbing
- abrade
- abrasion
- chafe
- erode
- grate
- graze
- key
- rasp
- rubsomethingdown
- rubdown
- scour
- scoursomethingout
- scrape
- scratch
- scratching
- smooth
- tickle
- wear
- wear(something)away
tickleverb(PLEASE)
[Toften passive]informal
If something tickles you, youfinditfunnyor it makes youhappy:
old-fashionedI was tickledpink(= veryhappy)tohearthenews.
Causing pleasure
- agreeable
- agreeableness
- agreeably
- all things to all peopleidiom
- attractive
- deliciously
- delight
- delightful
- delightfully
- distraction
- homely
- homey
- indulgent
- indulgently
- jovial
- sensual
- sensuous
- sensuously
- serendipitous
- sweeten
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Humour & humorous
Idiom
ticklesomeone'sfancy
Examplesoftickled
tickled
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
As its potentially humiliating nature, the fact that it makes you helpless, and its association with the "precarious" all suggest, tickling renders thetickledpowerless.
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Few of us have not been intellectually and pleasurablytickledin one or more of these areas.
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It has, however, so far onlytickledthe surface of the problem, so to speak.
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Their negotiating stance is that of a spaniel which lies on its back to have its tummytickled.
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I understand that for some years youngsters have put their hands into the transformers to get "tickled", as they call it.
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I wastickledby the contents of the nomination form.
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Indeed, the football team may be tabby cats that roll over to have their tummiestickled.
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They have beentickledto think that they did the directing, and, above all, that the other person did not know they were blind.
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My constituents have told me that they have difficulty keeping up with price rises every week, but prices beingtickledup daily is news to me.
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Thattickledthem to death.
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Ittickledmy fancy very much.
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So employers now have to betickled.
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Runs did not flow; they were grafted from a pitch which kept the batsman hopping around as delivery after deliverytickledtheir ribs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Rats emit short, high frequency, ultrasonic, vocalizations during purportedly pleasurable experiences such as rough-and-tumble play, before receiving morphine, during mating, and whentickled.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The young girl's peachy cheek must have beentickledwith a stiff whisker, for the growth of which she was herself responsible.
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- sisal
- sissy
- sister
- sister city
- sister-city
- sister from another mister
- sister-from-another-mister
- sisterhood
- sister-in-law
- sister-in-law
- sisterly
- sister ship
- sister-ship
- sisters-in-law
- sisters-in-law
- sister under the skin
- sister-under-the-skin
- Sisyphean
- sit
- sitar
- sit around
- sit-around
- sit-around-on-backside
- sit (around) on your backside
- sit-around-on-your-backside