tickle

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of tickling.
  2. An itchy feeling resembling the result of tickling.
    — I have a persistent tickle in my throat.
  3. A light tap of the ball. informal
    — There's a very fine line between a tickle and an edge!
  4. A narrow strait, such as between an island and the shore. Newfoundland
    — Charts and Plans. [...] No. New Charts. 2253 England, and south coast—Dartmouth harbour. [...] 3320 Newfoundland, Thimble tickles and Glover harbour—Head of Seal bay.
动词 v.
  1. To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which typically causes laughter, pleasure and twitching. transitive
    — He tickled Nancy's tummy, and she started to giggle.
  2. To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled. intransitive
    — My nose tickles, and I'm going to sneeze!
  3. To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc. transitive
  4. To cause delight or amusement in. transitive
    — He was tickled to receive such a wonderful gift.
  5. To feel titillation. intransitive
    — He with secret joy therefore Did tickle inwardly in every vein.
  6. To catch fish in the hand (usually in rivers or smaller streams) by manually stimulating the fins. transitive
  7. To be excited or heartened. archaic
形容词 adj.
  1. Changeable, capricious; insecure. obsolete
    — So ticle be the termes of mortall state, And full of subtile sophismes, which do play With double senses, and with false debate […]
副词 adv.
  1. Insecurely, precariously, unstably.
    — Lucio. I warrant it is: And thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milke-maid, if she be in loue, may sigh it off: Send after the Duke, and appeale to him.

词形变化

tickles plural tickles present,singular,third-person tickling participle,present tickled participle,past tickled past more tickle comparative most tickle superlative more tickle comparative most tickle superlative

词汇关系

近义词
kittle

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tiklen, tikelen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a frequentative form of Middle English tikken (“to touch lightly”), thus equivalent to tick + -le; or perhaps related to Old English tinclian (“to tickle”). Compare North Frisian tigele (“to tickle”) (Hallig dialect), and tiikle (“to tickle”) (Amrum dialect), German dialectal zicklen (“to excite; stir up”).
Alternatively, from a metathetic alteration of Middle English kitelen ("to tickle"; see kittle). Both are ultimately sound-symbolic.
词源 2
From Middle English tiklen, tikelen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a frequentative form of Middle English tikken (“to touch lightly”), thus equivalent to tick + -le; or perhaps related to Old English tinclian (“to tickle”). Compare North Frisian tigele (“to tickle”) (Hallig dialect), and tiikle (“to tickle”) (Amrum dialect), German dialectal zicklen (“to excite; stir up”).
Alternatively, from a metathetic alteration of Middle English kitelen ("to tickle"; see kittle). Both are ultimately sound-symbolic.
词源 3
From Middle English tiklen, tikelen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a frequentative form of Middle English tikken (“to touch lightly”), thus equivalent to tick + -le; or perhaps related to Old English tinclian (“to tickle”). Compare North Frisian tigele (“to tickle”) (Hallig dialect), and tiikle (“to tickle”) (Amrum dialect), German dialectal zicklen (“to excite; stir up”).
Alternatively, from a metathetic alteration of Middle English kitelen ("to tickle"; see kittle). Both are ultimately sound-symbolic.
词源 4
From Middle English tiklen, tikelen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a frequentative form of Middle English tikken (“to touch lightly”), thus equivalent to tick + -le; or perhaps related to Old English tinclian (“to tickle”). Compare North Frisian tigele (“to tickle”) (Hallig dialect), and tiikle (“to tickle”) (Amrum dialect), German dialectal zicklen (“to excite; stir up”).
Alternatively, from a metathetic alteration of Middle English kitelen ("to tickle"; see kittle). Both are ultimately sound-symbolic.
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