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Adjective: tickling
  1. Exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements
    - tingling, titillating, atingle []
Noun: tickling
  1. The act of tickling
    - tickle, titillation
Verb: tickle  tikul
  1. Touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
    - titillate, vellicate
     
  2. Feel sudden intense sensation or emotion
    - thrill, vibrate
     
  3. Touch or stroke lightly
    "The grass tickled her calves"

Derived forms: ticklings

See also: exciting

Type of: caress, excite, fondle, itch, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir, touch, touching

Encyclopedia: Tickle

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