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prettygoodwordOne last frequentive:
tickle (TIK-uhl) - v., to touch or stroke delicately in a manner which causes laughter, pleasure and twitching.
Plus various extended senses and noun of the actions. First appeared in the 14th century as Middle English tikelen, apparently the frequentive of tiken/ticken, to touch lightly, though note the existence of Old English tinclian, to tickle. This sense of tick has survived in two ways: the soft ticking of machinery, such as a clock, and in tick marks used for counting and/or marking correct. To go ahead and tickle that ticky-box.
---L.
tickle (TIK-uhl) - v., to touch or stroke delicately in a manner which causes laughter, pleasure and twitching.
Plus various extended senses and noun of the actions. First appeared in the 14th century as Middle English tikelen, apparently the frequentive of tiken/ticken, to touch lightly, though note the existence of Old English tinclian, to tickle. This sense of tick has survived in two ways: the soft ticking of machinery, such as a clock, and in tick marks used for counting and/or marking correct. To go ahead and tickle that ticky-box.
---L.
