TICKLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tickling mean? 

• TICKLING (noun)
  The noun TICKLING has 1 sense:

1. the act of tickling

  Familiarity information: TICKLING used as a noun is very rare.

• TICKLING (adjective)
  The adjective TICKLING has 1 sense:

1. exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements

  Familiarity information: TICKLING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TICKLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of tickling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

tickle; tickling; titillation

Hypernyms ("tickling" is a kind of...):

touch; touching (the act of putting two things together with no space between them)

Derivation:

tickle (touch or stroke lightly)

tickle (touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements)

• TICKLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements

Synonyms:

tickling; tingling; titillating

Similar:

exciting (creating or arousing excitement)

 Context examples 

He's much more likely to do the tickling.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The young leader snarled terribly, but his snarl broke midmost into a tickling cough.

(White Fang, by Jack London)