tickling : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tickling	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for tickling
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tickling adj exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements Synonym(s): tickling, tingling, titillating n the act of tickling [syn: tickle, tickling, titillation]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tickle \Tic"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tickled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tickling}.] [Perhaps freq. of tick to beat; pat; but cf. also AS. citelian to tickle, D. kittelen, G. kitzlen, OHG. chizzil[d3]n, chuzzil[d3]n, Icel. kitla. Cf. {Kittle}, v. t.] 1. To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted. If you tickle us, do we not laugh? --Shak. 2. To please; to gratify; to make joyous. Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. --Pope. Such a nature Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow Which he treads on at noon. --Shak.