TICKLES
Noun
tickles
plural of tickle
Verb
tickles
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tickle
Anagrams
• Stickel, Stickle, icklest, lickest, stickle
Proper noun
Tickles
plural of Tickle
Anagrams
• Stickel, Stickle, icklest, lickest, stickle
Source: Wiktionary
TICKLE
Tic"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tickled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tickling.]
Etym: [Perhaps freq. of tick to beat; pat; but cf. also AS. citelian
to tickle, D. kittelen, G. kitzlen, OHG. chizzilon, chuzzilon, 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.
Tic"kle, v. i.
1. To feel titillation.
He with secret joy therefore Did tickle inwardly in every vein.
Spenser.
2. To excite the sensation of titillation. Shak.
Tic"kle, a.
1. Ticklish; easily tickled. [Obs.]
2. Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant. [Obs.]
The world is now full tickle, sikerly. Chaucer.
So tickle is the state of earthy things. Spenser.
3. Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch;
unstable; easily overthrown. [Obs.]
Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milkmaid, if she
be in love, may sigh it off. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition