Ticklename

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  A habitational surname from Old English.

ticklenoun/ˈtɪkl̩/

• 1

  The act of tickling.

• 2

  An itchy feeling resembling the result of tickling.

  • I have a persistent tickle in my throat.
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  informalball-gamescricketgamesA light tap of the ball.

  • There's a very fine line between a tickle and an edge!
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  A narrow strait, such as between an island and the shore.

  • Charts and Plans. [...] No. New Charts. 2253 England, and south coast—Dartmouth harbour. [...] 3320 Newfoundland, Thimble tickles and Glover harbour—Head of Seal bay.
  • Cow Head itself is a prominent headland connected to the settlement by a natural causeway, or ‘tickle’ as the Newfoundlanders prefer it.

tickleverb/ˈtɪkl̩/

• 1

  To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which typically causes laughter, pleasure and twitching.

  • He tickled Nancy's tummy, and she started to giggle.
  • If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
• 2

  To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.

  • My nose tickles, and I'm going to sneeze!
• 3

  To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.

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  To cause delight or amusement in.

  • He was tickled to receive such a wonderful gift.
  • Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
• 5

  To feel titillation.

  • 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.

• 7

  archaicTo be excited or heartened.

tickleadj/ˈtɪkl̩/

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  obsoleteChangeable, capricious; insecure.

  • So ticle be the termes of mortall state, And full of subtile sophismes, which do play With double senses, and with false debate […]

tickleadv/ˈtɪkl̩/

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  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.