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 tickled
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present perfectof tickle.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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So he put it on her forehead instead, but it trickled onto her nose, where it would have been indiscreet to wipe it away, however much it may have tickled.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2023
But here are six that have tickled his fancy this week.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2021
Researchers have tickled them every day for a month to see if it will improve their emotional well-being, and perhaps make them better models for research.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2021
It must have tickled him to have published Fukuyama’s article.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2018
Still, the notion of being crowned King of Corsica tickled his vanity, and would have tickled it more had he begotten a son to succeed him.
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
