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Meanings of tickle in English

Portuguese
cócegas
Catalan
pessigolleig
Spanish
cosquillas

The act of tickling.

cócegas
Catalan
pessigollejar

Touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.

pessigollejar
Synonyms
Examples for "titillate"
Examples for "titillate"
1
But the flutter failed to reach or to titillate the steady eyes.
His Dog
2
Down-ticket pols will re-terrorize and titillate voters with tough talk about Isis.
The Guardian
3
It would thrill, titillate, and if all went well perhaps even shock.
The devil in the white city: murder, magic & madness and the fai...
4
You titillate by putting pin placements in accessible positions on receptive greens.
The Irish Times
5
Her appearance seemed designed to shock -and, perhaps, to titillate its broadcaster.
The Guardian
1
Thus, if you vellicate the throat with a feather, nausea is produced; if you wound it with a penknife, pain is induced, but not sickness.
Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I
Portuguese
eletrizar
Spanish
picar

Feel sudden intense sensation or emotion.

eletrizar
Usage of tickle in English
1
You know I don't particularly like animals, especially ones you can't tickle.
Are you there, vodka? it's me, chelsea
2
Long may his elegant Philippics continue to goad and tickle our complacencies!
The Irish Times
3
Dominic Smith has a suggestion that is sure to tickle feminists everywhere.
The Guardian
4
Within thirty seconds of Sutsoff's commands, Alek released a small tickle cough.
The panic zone
5
More like a goose walking over his grave, a tickle of badness.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
6
How it would tickle me to hear my niece calling the Hon.
Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks / A Picture of New ...
7
This proposal makes those changes look like a tickle with a feather.
The Guardian
8
I understand how to sing to tickle the ears of my hearers.
The Northern Light
9
A tickle of icy water ran down my scalp, my back, my-
The shifter
10
An effort to tickle the aboriginal sense of humour was a failure.
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
11
Just the idea seems to tickle me more'n I c'n tell you.
The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire; or, Scouting with the Silver Fo...
12
If he did, it would tickle that bunch to beat the band.
The Airplane Boys among the Clouds; Or, Young Aviators in a Wrec...
13
And then you tickle or do something and then they open up.
The new yorker
14
If that doesn't tickle your fancy, try one of the other dishes.
The South African
15
Still he struggled, and his small nails were starting to tickle her.
Before you know kindness
16
That's enough to tickle the fancy of even the hardest nosed investor.
The Irish Times
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