Tickle
verb
To touch lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements.
He tickled her feet and made her laugh.
Often appears as...
- tickle someone's fancy
- tickle pink
verb
To appeal to, to please, or to stimulate interest.
This new idea really tickles my fancy.
Often appears as...
- tickle someone's fancy
- tickle pink
Usage tips
Idiomatic
noun
A light sensation, often causing laughter or twitching movements.
She felt a tickle in her throat.
noun
An act or instance of tickling someone or something.
She gave the baby a tickle.
verb
To cause a peculiar thrilling sensation.
The news tickled him pink.
Usage tips
Colloquial
verb
To touch lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements.
He tickled her feet and made her laugh.
Often appears as...
- tickle someone's fancy
- tickle pink
verb
To appeal to, to please, or to stimulate interest.
This new idea really tickles my fancy.
Often appears as...
- tickle someone's fancy
- tickle pink
Usage tips
Idiomatic
noun
A light sensation, often causing laughter or twitching movements.
She felt a tickle in her throat.
noun
An act or instance of tickling someone or something.
She gave the baby a tickle.
verb
To cause a peculiar thrilling sensation.
The news tickled him pink.
Usage tips
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Physically Stimulating
Used when the touch causes involuntary movements or laughter, not always comfortable for everyone.
Stop it! You're tickling me too much!
Pro Tip 2/2Playful Interaction
Often occurs in a playful, affectionate context among friends, family, or couples.
The siblings giggled while they tickled each other on the floor.
Pro Tip 1/2Physically Stimulating
Used when the touch causes involuntary movements or laughter, not always comfortable for everyone.
Stop it! You're tickling me too much!
Pro Tip 2/2Playful Interaction
Often occurs in a playful, affectionate context among friends, family, or couples.
The siblings giggled while they tickled each other on the floor.
Pro Tip 1/2Physically Stimulating
Used when the touch causes involuntary movements or laughter, not always comfortable for everyone.
Stop it! You're tickling me too much!
Pro Tip 2/2Playful Interaction
Often occurs in a playful, affectionate context among friends, family, or couples.
The siblings giggled while they tickled each other on the floor.
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Why we laugh PIPE Sophie...
humans are the only animals that laugh. Nietzsche thought that humans are the only animals that laugh. In fact, you find laughter throughout the mammals. It's been well-described and well-observed in primates, but you also see it in rats, and wherever you find it -- humans, primates, rats -- you find it associated with things like tickling.
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Daniel Wolpert: The real...
And we replay that to the other hand with a time delay. Either no time delay, in which case light would just tickle your palm, or with a time delay of two-tenths of three-tenths of a second. So the important point here is the right hand always does the same things -- sinusoidal movement.
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Three ideas. Three...
And I thought the best way to do that would be through a comedy show. And that is what I did. I wrote a comedy show that did not respect the punchline, that line where comedians are expected and trusted to pull their punches and turn them into tickles. I did not stop.
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The surprising science...
to dethrone the leader, which may take two or three months where they're testing all the coalitions in the group, they also become extremely generous. They share food very easily with everyone. Or they start to tickle the babies of the females.
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This weird trick will...
Another hypothesis was that worm grunting tickled their bodies, so they emerged to end the aggravation. Whimsical! But worm grunting vibrates the ground’s surface. If worms were evading the vibrations, wouldn't they burrow deeper instead?
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What we don't teach kids...
I laid our towels down just out of reach of the surf and fell asleep. And when I woke up, I saw my daughter drizzling sand on her arm like this, and I could feel that light tickle of sand on her skin
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Anaconda Breeding Ball PIPE...
it just may be the one that tickles her the best the male is using what's called his mating sperm the last vestige of what was a hind laid in his lizard
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It's not fair having 12...
and if you tickle us, do we not laugh?" It is our humanity, and all the potential within it, that makes us beautiful. Thank you.
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Turtle Spa! PIPE Turtle's...
and covered in living skin she can feel the tickling on her shell to encourage the service a turtle adopts a special posture
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A short musical...
sadness tickles so afraid to dream cause dreams are costly and I won't believe the lies God k-keep give me a life yeah
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Why we laugh PIPE Sophie...
humans are the only animals that laugh. Nietzsche thought that humans are the only animals that laugh. In fact, you find laughter throughout the mammals. It's been well-described and well-observed in primates, but you also see it in rats, and wherever you find it -- humans, primates, rats -- you find it associated with things like tickling.
Video examples
Daniel Wolpert: The real...
And we replay that to the other hand with a time delay. Either no time delay, in which case light would just tickle your palm, or with a time delay of two-tenths of three-tenths of a second. So the important point here is the right hand always does the same things -- sinusoidal movement.
Video examples
Three ideas. Three...
And I thought the best way to do that would be through a comedy show. And that is what I did. I wrote a comedy show that did not respect the punchline, that line where comedians are expected and trusted to pull their punches and turn them into tickles. I did not stop.
Video examples
The surprising science...
to dethrone the leader, which may take two or three months where they're testing all the coalitions in the group, they also become extremely generous. They share food very easily with everyone. Or they start to tickle the babies of the females.
Video examples
This weird trick will...
Another hypothesis was that worm grunting tickled their bodies, so they emerged to end the aggravation. Whimsical! But worm grunting vibrates the ground’s surface. If worms were evading the vibrations, wouldn't they burrow deeper instead?
Video examples
What we don't teach kids...
I laid our towels down just out of reach of the surf and fell asleep. And when I woke up, I saw my daughter drizzling sand on her arm like this, and I could feel that light tickle of sand on her skin
Video examples
Anaconda Breeding Ball PIPE...
it just may be the one that tickles her the best the male is using what's called his mating sperm the last vestige of what was a hind laid in his lizard
Video examples
It's not fair having 12...
and if you tickle us, do we not laugh?" It is our humanity, and all the potential within it, that makes us beautiful. Thank you.
Video examples
Turtle Spa! PIPE Turtle's...
and covered in living skin she can feel the tickling on her shell to encourage the service a turtle adopts a special posture
Video examples
A short musical...
sadness tickles so afraid to dream cause dreams are costly and I won't believe the lies God k-keep give me a life yeah
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Quote examples
Michael Stuhlbarg
American Actor
Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.
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Jeremy Irons
English Actor
Really, ambition has gone. I look for things that tickle my fancy. You begin to see the end of life on the horizon. You think, 'It's not going on forever, this.' Let's make the most of what time I have left.
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William Shakespeare
English Playwright
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
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Peter Falk
American Actor
The whole thing was an actor's dream - getting a character that tickles you so much you can't wait to act as him.
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Alexander Pope
English Poet
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Ken Berry
There's something about a fall that tickles people. I can't explain why.
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Gregory H. Johnson
American Astronaut
I'm just tickled pink that I'll be on Endeavour's last flight.
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Barbara Corcoran
American Businesswoman
I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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Paul Whiteman
American Celebrity
Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.
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Leslie Jones
American Comedian
My job is to bring the tickle. I know what's funny.
Quote examples
Michael Stuhlbarg
American Actor
Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.
Quote examples
Jeremy Irons
English Actor
Really, ambition has gone. I look for things that tickle my fancy. You begin to see the end of life on the horizon. You think, 'It's not going on forever, this.' Let's make the most of what time I have left.
Quote examples
William Shakespeare
English Playwright
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Quote examples
Peter Falk
American Actor
The whole thing was an actor's dream - getting a character that tickles you so much you can't wait to act as him.
Quote examples
Alexander Pope
English Poet
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Quote examples
Ken Berry
There's something about a fall that tickles people. I can't explain why.
Quote examples
Gregory H. Johnson
American Astronaut
I'm just tickled pink that I'll be on Endeavour's last flight.
Quote examples
Barbara Corcoran
American Businesswoman
I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
Quote examples
Paul Whiteman
American Celebrity
Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.
Quote examples
Leslie Jones
American Comedian
My job is to bring the tickle. I know what's funny.
Example 1 of 10
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