0 past simple and past 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:
As its potentially humiliating nature, the fact that it makes you helpless, and its association with the "precarious" all suggest, tickling renders the tickled powerless.
Few of us have not been intellectually and pleasurably tickled in one or more of these areas.
It has, however, so far only tickled the surface of the problem, so to speak.
Their negotiating stance is that of a spaniel which lies on its back to have its tummy tickled.
I understand that for some years youngsters have put their hands into the transformers to get "tickled", as they call it.
I was tickled by the contents of the nomination form.
Indeed, the football team may be tabby cats that roll over to have their tummies tickled.
They have been tickled to think that they did the directing, and, above all, that the other person did not know they were blind.
