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Webster 1913 Edition
Tingle
1.
To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound.
At which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.
1 Sam. iii. 11.
2.
To feel a sharp, thrilling pain.
The pale boy senator yet
tingling
stands. Pope.
3.
To have, or to cause, a sharp, thrilling sensation, or a slight pricking sensation.
They suck pollution through their
tingling
vein. Tickell.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tingle
TIN'GLE
,Verb.
I.
1.
To feel a kind of thrilling sound. At which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. 1 Sam.3.
2.
To feel a sharp thrilling pain. The pale boy senator yet tingling stands.
3.
To have a thrilling sensation, or a sharp slight penetrating sensation. They suck pollution through their tingling veins.
Definition 2024
tingle
tingle
English
Verb
tingle (third-person singular simple present tingles, present participle tingling, simple past and past participle tingled)
- To ring
- To cause to ring
- 1874, Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, fit 2:
- […] the Captain they trusted so well
- Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
- And that was to tingle his bell.
- 1874, Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, fit 2:
- To have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
- To make ringing sounds, to twang.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
- Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.
- Charles Dickens
- sharp tingling bells
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
Translations
to have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation
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to make a ringing sound
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Noun
tingle (plural tingles)
Translations
prickling sensation