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.
have been tickling
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present perfect progressiveof tickle.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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See heere he comes, and my Ladies two pages, they have been tickling the vanity ont yfaith.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
