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tickly

American  
[tik-lee] / ˈtɪk li /

adjective

ticklier, tickliest
  1. ticklish.


Etymology

Origin of tickly

First recorded in 1520–30; tickle + -y 1

Example Sentences

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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

The other is based on a desire to avoid that floating, tickly hair in the vicinity of one’s uvula.

From Slate Aug. 15, 2019

So Aru had been left with that horrible, tickly feeling of a drippy nose, and she’d had no other choice....

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

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 Stephens, James

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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