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tickled
(encz) | tickled,lechtal v: Zdeněk Brož |
tickled
(encz) | tickled,šimral v: Zdeněk Brož |
Tickled
(gcide) | Tickle \Tic"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tickled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tickling.] [Perhaps freq. of tick to beat; pat; but cf.
also AS. citelian to tickle, D. kittelen, G. kitzlen, OHG.
chizzil[=o]n, chuzzil[=o]n, Icel. kitla. Cf. Kittle, v. t.]
1. To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling
sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of
spasm which become dangerous if too long protracted.
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If you tickle us, do we not laugh? --Shak.
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2. To please; to gratify; to make joyous.
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Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. --Pope.
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Such a nature
Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow
Which he treads on at noon. --Shak.
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tickled
(encz) | tickled,lechtal v: Zdeněk Brožtickled,šimral v: Zdeněk Brož |
tickled pink
(encz) | tickled pink,potěšen adj: [id.] Pino |
Stickled
(gcide) | Stickle \Stic"kle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stickled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Stickling.] [Probably fr. OE. stightlen, sti?tlen, to
dispose, arrange, govern, freq. of stihten, AS. stihtan: cf.
G. stiften to found, to establish.]
1. To separate combatants by intervening. [Obs.]
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When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians
killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed,
he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and
the race of fiends. --Dryden.
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2. To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious
manner on insufficient grounds.
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Fortune, as she 's wont, turned fickle,
And for the foe began to stickle. --Hudibras.
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While for paltry punk they roar and stickle.
--Dryden.
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The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong.
--Hazlitt.
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3. To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the
other; to trim.
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Untickled
(gcide) | Untickled \Untickled\
See tickled. |
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