- an act of tickling somebody
- She gave the child a little tickle.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + tickle- give somebody/something
- feel
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- a slightly uncomfortable feeling in a part of your body
- to have a tickle in your throat (= that makes you want to cough)
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + tickle- give somebody/something
- feel
Word OriginMiddle 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
See tickle in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryslap and tickle
- (British English, old-fashioned, informal) enthusiastic kissing and cuddling between lovers
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