Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that tickles.
- noun A memorandum, book, or file to aid the memory.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which tickles or pleases.
- noun Something which puzzles or perplexes; something difficult to understand or answer; a puzzle.
- noun A narrow difficult passage or strait on the coast of Newfoundland.
- noun A memorandum-book kept to tickle or refresh the memory; specifically, a book used by bankers, showing, in the order of their maturity, notes and debts receivable by the bank. There is usually a tickler for each month of the year.
- noun A small bottle containing about half a pint (of spirits), or just enough to “tickle”; also, a dram of whisky or brandy.
- noun A small weapon carried on the person, as a pistol or a knife.
- noun A strap with which to whip.
- noun A prong' used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.
- noun A large longicorn beetle, Monohammus titillator, with extremely long antennæ: so called from the habit it has (in common with most of the Cerambycidæ) of gently touching now and then the surface on which it walks with the tips of its long antennæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, tickles.
- noun Something puzzling or difficult.
- noun Com. Cant, U. S. A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity.
- noun engraving A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who or thing which amuses,
tickles , excites. - noun A
reminder . - noun A latex
condom that has additional protrusions, for enhancing the sexual pleasure of the user. - noun dated Something
puzzling ordifficult ; aconundrum . - noun US, dated, slang, business A
book containing amemorandum ofnotes anddebts arranged in the order of theirmaturity . - noun UK, dated A
prong used bycoopers toextract bungs fromcasks .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a file of memoranda or notices that remind of things to be done
Etymologies
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Examples
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The word tickler comes from the David Allen task management system which suggests a manual technique for maintaining a set of reminders and a habit of looking at them to see which are due.
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RUBEL: I would recommend doing what lawyers do, which is keeping what we call a tickler file.
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It turns out that the file a secretary keeps to remind her boss to do certain things at certain times is called a tickler file.
The Creature from Cleveland Depths Fritz Leiber 1951
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It consisted of a coil, variously known as the tickler, the intensity coil, and the regeneration coil.
The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room Allen Chapman
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Mrs Spencer believed the tickler was the old matron's assistant, who the spiritualists said had come back to the house because she believed she still had a job to do.
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Mrs Spencer believed the tickler was the old matron's assistant, who the spiritualists said had come back to the house because she believed she still had a job to do.
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"tickler" -- that is, in lighting some straw in the grate below him.
The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892
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Many researchers and others involved in medication adherence issues are excited about the potential of technology to educate patients and provide a "tickler" system to remind them to take their drugs.
Group tries to simplify drug labels to help people get the proper doses Michelle Andrews 2011
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Many researchers and others involved in medication adherence issues are excited about the potential of technology to educate patients and provide a "tickler" system to remind them to take their drugs.
Group tries to simplify drug labels to help people get the proper doses Michelle Andrews 2011
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Instead, Sullivan hid the most serious corruption cases in what was known as a "tickler" file.
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