tickle
verb (used with object)
to touch or stroke lightly with the fingers, a feather, etc., so as to excite a tingling or itching sensation in; titillate.
had tickled
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past perfectof tickle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He finally fell in the third to last over of the day when the third umpire judged he had tickled a catch down the leg side off part-time leg-spinner Dan Lawrence.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2022
With a cricket bat Pudsey's boy had tickled sporting Britain into a grin that stretched from Land's End to John o' Groat's.
From Time Magazine Archive
More technocrat than autocrat by instinct, he shunned the accolades and personality cult that had tickled the vanity of his predecessor.
From Time Magazine Archive
The idea that had tickled and tugged in her mind since Mark’s mom first called was alive and in her room with her.
From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart
A fifth spread his armes like an vsher that goes before to make roome, and thript with his finger & his thumbe when he thought he had tickled it with a conclusion.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Edmund Gosse
