tickly
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of tickly
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“How these are fun, tickly, exciting stories for kids to talk about and hear. And that’s connecting to the horrors of real life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Ferrier took a Covid test on Saturday 26 September 2020 because she had a "tickly throat".
From BBC ● May 23, 2023
Because the weight of your body is distributed across 4,788 nails, your skin’s pain sensors aren’t activated, and you’ll probably feel only a mild tickly sensation.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2022
Dusting the tickly stray strands off my neck, I felt lighter, ready for the Lunar New Year.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2021
They poked around in my ears with tickly little fingers, explored my eyes, nose, and mouth.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
He tucked himself into a fork the way he had been taught, and he passed the crawliest, tickliest night he had ever known.
From Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens
The caique is gayly ornamented and pretty to look at, but it is the crankiest and tickliest of all nautical inventions—more resembling a Canadian birch-bark canoe than any other craft you are acquainted with.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various
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