Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“tickles” is a form of

tickle

/ˈtɪkl̩/ noun, verb, adjective, adverb, proper noun

Forms tickles tickling tickled

  1. noun The act of tickling.
  2. noun An itchy feeling resembling the result of tickling. “I have a persistent tickle in my throat.”
  3. noun (cricket, informal) A light tap of the ball.
  4. noun (Newfoundland) A narrow strait, such as between an island and the shore.
  5. verb (transitive) To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which typically causes laughter, pleasure and twitching. “He tickled Nancy's tummy, and she started to giggle.”
  6. verb (intransitive, of a body part) To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled. “My nose tickles, and I'm going to sneeze!”
  7. verb (transitive) To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.
  8. verb (transitive) To cause delight or amusement in. “He was tickled to receive such a wonderful gift.”
  9. verb (intransitive) To feel titillation.
  10. verb (transitive) To catch fish in the hand (usually in rivers or smaller streams) by manually stimulating the fins.
  11. verb (archaic) To be excited or heartened.
  12. adjective (obsolete) Changeable, capricious; insecure.
  13. adverb Insecurely, precariously, unstably.
  14. proper noun A habitational surname from Old English.

Synonyms

kittle tickling titillation titillate vellicate thrill vibrate

Etymology

From Middle English tiklen, tikelen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a frequentative form of Middle English tikken (“to touch lightly”), thus equivalent to tick + -le; or perhaps related to Old English tinclian (“to tickle”). Compare North Frisian tigele (“to tickle”) (Hallig dialect), and tiikle (“to tickle”) (Amrum dialect), German dialectal zicklen (“to excite; stir up”).
Alternatively, from a metathetic alteration of Middle English kitelen ("to tickle"; see kittle). Both are ultimately sound-symbolic.

From Tickhill in England.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.
  2. verb To please; to gratify; to make joyous.
  3. verb To feel titillation.
  4. verb To excite the sensation of titillation. Shak.

Etymology [Perhaps freq. of tick to beat; pat; but cf. also AS. citelian to tickle, D. kittelen, G. kitzlen, OHG. chizzilon, chuzzilon, Icel. kitla. Cf. Kittle, v. t.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “tickle”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “tickle” (best matches first).