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Definition of Tickles
1. tickle [v] - See also: tickle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tickles
Literary usage of Tickles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2005)
""You two are," he said, grabbing her arm and then digging his fingers into her
tummy, doubling her over with tickles. Th were twelve boxes of books. ..."
2. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"'You two are," he said, grabbing her arm and then digging his fingers into her
tummy, doubling her over with tickles. here were twelve boxes of books. ..."
3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"The little finger, which is thrust into the ear if anything tickles it. Bar-marked.
Marked so as to be recognised. The allusion is to marking cattle and ..."
4. Candle-lightin' Timeby Paul Laurence Dunbar by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1901)
"Lawsy, chile, you tickles me to def! — Dat 's de man what brings de fros',
a-paintin* Picters on de winder wid his bref. ..."
5. The Comic History of the United States: From a Period Prior to the Discovery by John D. Sherwood (1870)
"Colonel Meigs tickles the Feet of Long Island, and makes Congress langh. — Colonel
Prescott is obliged to rise very early one Morning at ..."
6. Army Life of an Illinois Soldier: Including a Day by Day Record of Sherman's by Charles Wright Wills (1906)
"It tickles us to see that you home folks are uneasy about us because Hood has
got into our rear. I tell you that I have not seen a man uneasy for a minute, ..."
7. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1902)
"The more he coughs the < it tickles, Ign. SYMPTOMS. 1. Mind.—Brain seems clouded,
hard to remember what he reads. 2. Head.—Vertigo and belching of wind, ..."