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Meanings of vellicate in English

Catalan
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
Synonyms
Examples for "tickle"
Examples for "tickle"
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
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
Usage of vellicate in English
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
Frequent collocations
Translations for vellicate
Vellicate through the time