tickling Definition

tickle
verb tickled, tickling

1. To touch (a person or part of the body) lightly and so as to provoke a tingling or light prickling sensation or laughter.
intr
2. Said of a part of the body: to feel a tingling or light prickling sensation.
3. colloq
To amuse or entertain.
Thesaurus: amuse, cheer, please, delight, entertain, thrill, titillate, divert, enchant, excite.
4. To catch (a fish, especially a trout) by rubbing it gently underneath so that it moves backwards into one's hands.

noun

1. An act of tickling.
2. A tingling or light prickling sensation.

Idiom: tickled pink (tickled to death)

colloq
Very pleased or amused.

Idiom: tickle someone's fancy

To attract or amuse them in some way.

Etymology: 14c.