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).
