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.
is tickling
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present progressiveof tickle (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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You could watch it on YouTube and laugh straight through, as when someone is tickling you and won’t stop.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2016
With each rig sporting two parachute jigs, there is room for experimenting with different combinations of color and weight to find what is tickling the striper's fancy on a particular day.
From Time Magazine Archive
‘You is tickling me a bit,’ the BFG said.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
I'm afraid one of the splintered ribs is tickling his lung," he added, "but the fellow has got such a good nerve that I hardly discovered this unpleasant fact.
From Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser
On these occasions the poet should endeavor to raise pity; but instead of this, Ovid is tickling you to laugh.
From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot
