tickling

English

Verb

tickling

1. present participle and gerund of tickle

Adjective

tickling

1. That tickles

   a tickling sensation

Noun

tickling (plural ticklings)

1. A sensation that tickles.

   ticklings and muscular aches

2. The act by which someone is tickled.
   • 1998, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 31, page 290:

     It is quite true that the yells and shrieks, the bonnetings and ticklings, the hat throwing and fighting, give way for the instant to an intense desire to behold the sight, and the immense concourse was momentarily hushed in the depth of its excitement […]