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pessigollejar

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

pessigollejar
Portuguese
pegar com pinça
Spanish
velicar

Irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear.

pegar com pinça
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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