tickling

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of tickle

adj

  1. That tickles
    a tickling sensation

noun

  1. A sensation that tickles.
    ticklings and muscular aches
  2. The act by which someone is tickled.
    It is quite true that the yells and shrieks, the bonnetings and ticklings, the hat throwing and fighting, give way for the instant to an intense desire to behold the sight, and the immense concourse was momentarily hushed in the depth of its excitement […] 1998, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 31, page 290

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