2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tickle  \Tic"kle\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Tickled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Tickling}.]  [Perhaps  freq.  of  tick  to  beat  pat;  but  cf 
  also  AS  citelian  to  tickle,  D.  kittelen  G.  kitzlen  OHG. 
  chizzil[=o]n,  chuzzil[=o]n,  Icel.  kitla.  Cf  {Kittle},  v.  t.] 
  1.  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?  --Shak. 
 
  2.  To  please;  to  gratify;  to  make  joyous. 
 
  Pleased  with  a  rattle,  tickled  with  a  straw.  --Pope. 
 
  Such  a  nature  Tickled  with  good  success,  disdains 
  the  shadow  Which  he  treads  on  at  noon.  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tickling 
  adj  :  exciting  by  touching  lightly  so  as  to  cause  laughter  or 
  twitching  movements  [syn:  {tingling},  {titillating}] 
  n  :  the  act  of  tickling  [syn:  {tickle}] 

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