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tickle vb.:
1. to disturb by tickling Cym. IV. ii. 210 “as some fly had tickled slumber.”
2. to touch pleasurably Cym. I. i. 85 “How fine this tyrant Cant. where she wounds!,” Sonn. cxxviii. 9.
3. to flatter John II. i. 573 “That smooth-fac'd gentleman, tickling Commodity,” Cor. I. i. 266 “Tickled with good success.”
4. to vex, irritate, nettle 2H6 I. iii. 153 “She's t-d now.”
5. to touch (one) up, pay (one) out Tw.N. V. i. 199, 1H4 II. iv. 495 “I'll ye for a young prince” (=I'll show you what a young prince ought to be).
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