Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as ticklish.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having an itchy sensation like that of being tickled.

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Examples

  • Unfortunately, we also know when the other's funny bone is "tickly" -- and it starts a giggling fit.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • They feel kind of tickly on your head and down the back of your neck and under your shirt.

    Archive 2007-09-01 David Wharton 2007

  • They feel kind of tickly on your head and down the back of your neck and under your shirt.

    Hope You Enjoyed Your Day David Wharton 2007

  • It's funny, but every move they make looks like a tickly kiss.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • “They make me shivery as a breeze with their tickly little claws.”

    HOLLOW JAKE • by Douglas Campbell 2010

  • Sends a cold shudder down my spine at the thought of its scratchy, yicky, tickly-ness.

    Real-Time Book Blogging! « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • The slightest hint of a seasoning that could be considered by the average person as a bit spicy makes my eyes tear, my nose gets tickly and my mouth feels as if it's been set ablaze.

    I Say Tomato, You Say Tabasco. Lots of It. Katherine Rosman 2012

  • It's funny, but every move they make looks like a tickly kiss.

    CHAPTER XVIII 2010

  • His father's arms were rough and powerful but his fingers were as tickly as feathers.

    Song of the Needle 2010

  • We squatted, both of us, up to our ears in tickly grass: grass which, as midsummer passed, turned from tickly to scratchy and etched white lines, like the art of a primitive tribe, across our bare legs.

    Hilary Mantel Comma 2010

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