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Meanings of titillate in English

Catalan
pessigollejar

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

        pessigollejar
        Usage of titillate in English
        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
        6
        He taught me to titillate, to triturate, to masticate, to deglute-everything.
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920
        7
        I don't intend to titillate my readers, but no doubt that will be unavoidable.
        The new yorker
        8
        If you are going to titillate my vanity, I succumb.
        Confidence
        9
        Not that the subject of handcuffs doesn't titillate me, but that's also a hard sell.
        Frozen Heat
        10
        Viral videos are designed to surprise, titillate and entertain.
        Wired
        11
        Like other high-end specialty stores, Citarella tries to titillate customers by giving them uncommon fruits.
        The new yorker
        12
        But it is not designer violence, intended to appall and titillate in the same breath.
        The Guardian
        13
        A blend of metallic, carbon and sulphur notes combined to titillate the nostrils and the imagination.
        The South African
        14
        Then I had thought the gallery was nothing more than pornography to titillate a radically twisted mind.
        Seize the night
        15
        But figuring the headline might have been written by an editor looking to titillate, I read on.
        The Guardian
        16
        For there is much else to titillate.
        The Irish Times
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        Translations for titillate
        Titillate through the time