tickling

4 definitions • 4 examples

present participle of

to touch someone lightly with your fingers, making them slightly uncomfortable and often making them laugh:

Stop! You're tickling me!

I tickled her feet and she laughed.

If a part of the body tickles, or if something tickles it, it feels slightly uncomfortable and you want to rub it:

My nose is tickling, I think I'm going to sneeze.

If something tickles you, you find it funny or it makes you happy:

be tickled pink old-fashioned I was tickled pink (= very happy) to hear the news.