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Tickle
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(tickles, tickling, tickled) 1. When you tickle someone, you move your fingers lightly over a sensitive part of their body, often in order to make them laugh. I was tickling him, and he was laughing and giggling. VERB: V n 2. If something tickles you or tickles, it causes an irritating feeling by lightly touching a part of your body. ...a yellow hat with a great feather that tickled her ear... A beard doesn’t scratch, it just tickles. VERB: V n, V 3. If a fact or a situation tickles you, it amuses you or gives you pleasure. It tickles me to see him riled... The story was really funny–it tickled me. VERB: it V n to-inf, V n • tickled They all sounded just as tickled. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ
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I. verb (~d; tickling) Etymology: Middle English tikelen; akin to Old English tinclian to ~ Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to excite or stir up agreeably ; please music…does more than ~ our sense of rhythm — Edward Sapir b. to provoke to laughter or merriment ; amuse were ~d by the clown's antics 2. to touch (as a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements 3. to touch or stir gently a pianist tickling the ivories intransitive verb 1. to have a tingling or prickling sensation my back ~s 2. to excite the surface nerves to prickle II. noun Date: 1801 1. the act of tickling 2. a tickling sensation 3. something that ~s ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v. 1 a tr. apply light touches or strokes to (a person or part of a person's body) so as to excite the nerves and usu. produce laughter and spasmodic movement. b intr. feel this sensation (my foot tickles). 2 tr. excite agreeably; amuse or divert (a person, a sense of humour, vanity, etc.) (was highly tickled at the idea; this will tickle your fancy). 3 tr. catch (a trout etc.) by rubbing it so that it moves backwards into the hand. --n. 1 an act of tickling. 2 a tickling sensation. Phrases and idioms tickled pink (or to death) colloq. extremely amused or pleased. Derivatives tickler n. tickly adj. Etymology: ME, prob. frequent. of TICK(1) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. щекотание; щекочущее прикосновение he had a tickle in the throat —- у него першило в горле to give smb. a tickle —- пощекотать кого-л. 2. спорт. легкое прикосновение битой к мячу, "щекотание" (в крикете) 3. приятное ощущение the dinner was a tickle of the palate —- обед был такой, что пальчики оближешь 4. диал. ненадежный, капризный 5. диал. неустойчивый, непрочный, шаткий; легко приводимый в движение 6. диал. трудный, щекотливый 7. диал. тонкий, чувствительный 8. диал. щепетильный; привередливый, разборчивый 9. диал. пугливый (о животных) 10. щекотать; раздражать to tickle smb. with a straw —- (по)щекотать кого-л. соломинкой don't tickle me —- не щекочи меня 11. чесаться; вызывать раздражение my nose tickles —- у меня щекочет в носу 12. забавлять; развлекать, веселить the story tickled me —- этот рассказ позабавил меня to tickle smb. to death —- уморить кого-л. со смеху 13. доставлять удовольствие; угождать to tickle one's palate —- быть приятным на вкус to tickle one's ears —- услаждать слух to tickle the ear —- льстить (кому-л.), задабривать (кого-л.) to tickle smb.'s palm —- дать кому-л. взятку, подмазать кого-л. to tickle smb. to death —- угодить кому-л. как нельзя лучше to tickle smb. with a satirical poem —- пощекотать кому-л. нервы сатирическим стихотворением you tickle her fancy —- вы волнуете ее...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun щекотание, щекотка 2. v. 1) щекотать 2) чувствовать щекотание; my nose tickles - у меня щекочет в носу 3) угождать; доставлять удовольствие; веселить; to tickle to death - а) уморить со смеху; б) угодить как нельзя лучше; до смерти обрадовать 4) ловить (форель) руками ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 v 1 to rub someone's body gently with your fingers in order to make them laugh 2 if something touching your body tickles you, it makes you want to rub your body because it is uncomfortable (Mommy, this blanket tickles.) 3 if a situation, remark etc tickles you, it amuses or pleases you (I was tickled by her description of the wedding. | be tickled pink (=be very pleased or amused)) (She was tickled pink to see you in the paper!) 4 tickle sb's fancy old-fashioned if something tickles your fancy, it seems interesting and makes you want to do it (The idea of appearing in a film rather tickled his fancy.) 5 tickle the ivories old-fashioned to play the piano ~2 n 1 a slight sore feeling which makes you want to cough or rub yourself; itch2 (1) (I've got a tickle in my throat that won't go away.) 2 give sb a tickle to rub someone lightly with your fingers in order to make them laugh ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 14c., of uncertain origin, possibly a frequentive form of tick (2) in its older sense of "to touch." Meaning "to excite agreeably" is a translation of L. titillare. Ticklish is late 16c. in literal and figurative senses. Tickled "pleased, happy" is from 1586. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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