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Ticklish vs. Tickle — What's the Difference?

Ticklish vs. Tickle — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Ticklish and Tickle

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Ticklish

Sensitive to tickling.

Tickle

To touch (the body) lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements.

Ticklish

Easily offended or upset; touchy.

Tickle

To tease or excite pleasurably; titillate
Suspense that tickles the reader's curiosity.

Ticklish

Requiring skillful or tactful handling; delicate
A ticklish matter.
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Tickle

To fill with mirth or pleasure; delight.

Ticklish

Sensitive or susceptible to being tickled.
She is ticklish only on her tummy and the bottoms of her feet.

Tickle

To feel or cause a tingling sensation.

Ticklish

Touchy, sensitive, or delicate.

Tickle

The act of tickling.

Ticklish

Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish.

Tickle

A tickling sensation.

Ticklish

Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable.
Can any man with comfort lodge in a condition so dismally ticklish?

Tickle

The act of tickling.

Ticklish

Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business.
Surely princes had need, in tender matters and ticklish times, to beware what they say.

Tickle

An itchy feeling resembling the result of tickling.
I have a persistent tickle in my throat.

Ticklish

Difficult to handle; requiring great tact;
Delicate negotiations with the big powers
Hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter

Tickle

A light tap of the ball.

Tickle

(Newfoundland) A narrow strait.

Tickle

(transitive) To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes laughter, pleasure and twitching.
He tickled Nancy's tummy, and she started to giggle.

Tickle

(transitive) To unexpectedly touch or stroke delicately in a manner which causes displeasure or withdrawal.
A stranger tickled Nancy's tummy, causing her to scream in fear.

Tickle

To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.
My nose tickles, and I'm going to sneeze!

Tickle

(transitive) To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.

Tickle

(transitive) To cause delight or amusement in.
He was tickled to receive such a wonderful gift.

Tickle

(intransitive) To feel titillation.

Tickle

(transitive) To catch fish in the hand (usually in rivers or smaller streams) by manually stimulating the fins.

Tickle

(archaic) To be excited or heartened.

Tickle

(obsolete) Changeable, capricious; insecure.

Tickle

To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.
If you tickle us, do we not laugh?

Tickle

To please; to gratify; to make joyous.
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Such a natureTickled with good success, disdains the shadowWhich he treads on at noon.

Tickle

To feel titillation.
He with secret joy thereforeDid tickle inwardly in every vein.

Tickle

To excite the sensation of titillation.

Tickle

Ticklish; easily tickled.

Tickle

Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant.
The world is now full tickle, sikerly.
So tickle is the state of earthy things.

Tickle

Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown.
Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it off.

Tickle

A cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking

Tickle

The act of tickling

Tickle

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

Tickle

Feel sudden intense sensation or emotion;
He was thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine

Tickle

Touch or stroke lightly;
The grass tickled her calves

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