tingle

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

Etymology 1

Verb

tingle (third-person singular simple present tingles, present participle tingling, simple past and past participle tingled)

1. To have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
2. 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.

Translations

to have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation

• Dutch: kriebelen (nl)
• Finnish: pistellä (fi), kihelmöidä (fi), nipistellä (fi)
• Italian: titillare (it), solleticare (it)

• Latvian: tirpt
• Russian: испытывать (ru) (ispytyvatʹ) покалывание (ru) (pokalyvanije) n

Noun

tingle (plural tingles)

1. A prickling or stinging sensation.

Translations

prickling sensation

• Finnish: kihelmöinti, pistely
• French: picotement (fr) m
• German: Prickeln (de) n
• Italian: solletico (it) m

• Latvian: notirpums m, tirpoņa f, tirpšana f
• Polish: dzwonienie, mrowienie, swędzenie
• Russian: покалывание (ru) (pokályvanije) n

Etymology 2

Verb

tingle (third-person singular simple present tingles, present participle tingling, simple past and past participle tingled)

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   • 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.

Anagrams

• niglet