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Tickle
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted. If you tickle us, do we not laugh Shak.
2. To please; to gratify; to make joyous. Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. Pope. Such a nature Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow Which he treads on at noon. Shak.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To feel titillation. He with secret joy therefore Did tickle inwardly in every vein. Spenser.
2. To excite the sensation of titillation. Shak.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Ticklish; easily tickled. [Obs.]
2. Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant. [Obs.] The world is now full tickle, sikerly. Chaucer. So tickle is the state of earthy things. Spenser.
3. Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown. [Obs.] Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it off. Shak.