单词 | tickle |
释义 | tick·le I. intransitive verb 1. obsolete < he with secret joy therefore did tickle inwardly in every vein — Edmund Spenser > 2. < my back tickles > 3. < that feather tickles > transitive verb 1. a. (1) < a piece of music … does more than tickle our sense of rhythm or color — Edward Sapir > < it tickles the sense of vicarious adventure — John Dolman > < intentional cheapening of her work to tickle the banal reader — Sinclair Lewis > (2) < it tickled all that is evil in me — O.W.Holmes †1935 > < the self-esteem of the selected candidates was immensely tickled — Tom Marvel > < men have to be … tickled up by propaganda before they'll fight — Aldous Huxley > b. (1) < so excessively tickled by the jest that he couldn't forget it — Charles Dickens > (2) < how tickled they were … because they still had time to sell our rooms to four royalists — Christopher Morley > 2. a. (1) < the physical spasm which seizes children when they are tickled — Willa Cather > (2) < the sound of the wrapping paper being torn away tickled his ears — N.A.Wasserman > (3) < be tickled to death to see you > < all were tickled pink to be on land again > b. < the piano player tickled the keys > c. 3. Synonyms: see please • - tickle it - tickle the palm of II. 1. 2. 3. |
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