Tickle



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v.轻触或抚摩使发痒;取悦
• ［英］ v.轻触或抚摩使发痒 ( touch the body lightly so as to cause laughter) ; 取悦 ( please)

Webster Collegiate

I. verb (tickled; tickling)

• Etymology: Middle English tikelen; akin to Old English tinclian to tickle
• Date: 14th century
• transitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to excite or stir up agreeably ; please <music…does more than tickle our sense of rhythm — Edward Sapir>
    • b. to provoke to laughter or merriment ; amuse <were tickled 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 tickles>
  • 2. to excite the surface nerves to prickle

II. noun

• Date: 1801
• 1. the act of tickling
• 2. a tickling sensation
• 3. something that tickles

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