tickle

英 ['tɪk(ə)l] 美 ['tɪkl]

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※ 提供单词"tickle"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

tickle 呵痒，胳肢

可能来自 tick,滴答声，-le,表反复。引申词义触摸，触碰，呵痒等。

tickle: tickle: see tick
tickle (v.): early 14c. (intransitive) "to be thrilled or tingling," of uncertain origin, possibly a frequentative form of tick (v.) in its older sense of "to touch." The Old English form was tinclian. Some suggest a metathesis of kittle (Middle English kytyllen), from Dutch kietelen, from a common North Sea Germanic word for "to tickle" (compare Old Norse kitla, Old High German kizzilon, German kitzeln).

Meaning "to excite agreeably" (late 14c.) is a translation of Latin titillare. Meaning "to touch lightly so as to cause a peculiar and uneasy sensation in the nerves" is recorded from late 14c.; that of "to poke or touch so as to excite laughter" is from early 15c.; figurative sense of "to excite, amuse" is attested from 1680s. Related: Tickled; tickling. The noun is recorded from 1801. To tickle (one's) fancy is from 1640s.

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2. If something's bothering you, get it off your chest and tickle your [ the ] mind.: 有什么不痛快的事, 就把它说出来,你心里也就敞亮了.

3. Philosophy's queerest arguments tickle agreeably our sense of subtlety and ingenuity.: 哲学上最奇怪的议点也会愉快地引起我们微妙机敏的感觉.

4. Wilson was feeling restless. There was a tickle in his throat.: 威尔逊只觉得心神不定. 嗓子眼里有些发痒.