tickle

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

tickle [tickle tickles tickled tickling] verb, noun BrE [ˈtɪkl] NAmE [ˈtɪkl]
verb
1. transitive, intransitive ~ (sb/sth) to move your fingers on a sensitive part of sb's body in a way that makes them laugh
•The bigger girls used to chase me and tickle me.
•I tickled his feet with a feather.
•Stop tickling!
2. transitive, intransitive ~ (sth) to produce a slightly uncomfortable feeling in a sensitive part of the body; to have a feeling like this
•His beard was tickling her cheek.
•My throat tickles.
•a tickling cough
3. transitive to amuse and interest sb
•~ sb/sth to tickle sb's imagination
•~ sb to do sth I was tickled to discover that we'd both done the same thing.
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Word Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘be delighted or thrilled’): perhaps a frequentative of the verb ↑tick, or an alteration of Scots and dialect kittle ‘to tickle’.
Idioms: ↑tickle somebody's fancy ▪ ↑tickled pink
 
noun usually singular
1. an act of tickling sb
•She gave the child a little tickle.
2. a slightly uncomfortable feeling in a part of your body
•to have a tickle in your throat (= that makes you want to cough)
see slap and tickle at ↑slap _n.

Word Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘be delighted or thrilled’): perhaps a frequentative of the verb ↑tick, or an alteration of Scots and dialect kittle ‘to tickle’.
 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  tickling, titillation, thrill, vibrate, titillate, vellicate