[f. TICKLE v.] An act of tickling, in various senses of the vb.; a touch that tickles; a tickling sensation; a tickled or pleasantly excited feeling.
1801. in Spirit Pub. Jrnls., IX. 376. I want you to give those dogs yonder a tickle, en passant.
1872. Blackmore, Maid of Sker, v. I gave her [a child] a little tickle; and verily she began to laugh.
1880. Mrs. Whitney, Odd or Even, ix. And vibrant with an inward tickle.
1907. Daily Chron., 9 Dec., 4/7. The dinner was a tickle of the palate.
Mod. (Yorksh. saying) To have ‘tickles in the feet,’ said of one given to wandering, who will not settle to any useful work.
