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Verb: tingle  ting-gul
  1. Cause a stinging or tingling sensation
    - prickle
Noun: tingle  ting-gul
  1. An almost pleasurable sensation of fright
    "a tingle of surprise shot through him";
    - frisson, shiver, chill, quiver, shudder, thrill
     
  2. A somatic sensation as from many tiny stings
    - prickling, tingling

Derived forms: tingles, tingling, tingled

Type of: fear, fearfulness, fright, itch, somaesthesia [Brit, Cdn], somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia [N. Amer]

Encyclopedia: Tingle