0 present participle of tickle
1 to touch someone lightly with your fingers, making them slightly uncomfortable and often making them laugh:
2 If something tickles you, you find it funny or it makes you happy:
Although most laughter results from physical contact such as tickling, it also occurs during chasing play.
Later, while tickling her infant, she loomed close to her face and bared her teeth.
I can simultaneously experience a mild burning sensation extended for an inch along my arm, and, say, a pleasant tickling sensation extended for three inches on my back.
Ad hoc physical play comprising wrestling, tickling, and hugging was also common in the wings.
The infant responds to maternal touching and tickling with laughter and smiling, acts reinforcing further maternal touching until it becomes excessive, when the infant begins to fuss and cry.
His speech then, like his speech this afternoon, was full of unction and piety and laced with pantomime tickling and farce.
That passed after a few hours, but by the next day a tickling sensation in one leg was followed by a swelling in my calf.
People always assert that they do not believe in ghosts but at the same time there is an agreeably tickling sensation caused by listening to narratives of ghosts.