tickler
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tickler (plural ticklers)
- One who tickles.
- (informal) A person who or thing which amuses or excites.
- A reminder.
- Put it in the tickler file for next week.
- A latex condom that has additional protrusions, for enhancing the sexual pleasure of the user.
- (informal, dated) Something puzzling or difficult; a conundrum.
- (US, business) A tickler file, file cabinet, or similar containing memoranda of deadlines arranged in date order.
- 1862, The Parish Will Case, in the Court of Appeals:
- The moment she bought any item of stocks, any commercial paper or other securities in the course of her Wall-street operations, she at once wrote it down in the tickler.
- (UK, dated) A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.
- (dated) A dram of spirits.
Synonyms
- (condom): French tickler
Derived terms
Translations
one that tickles
reminder — see reminder
type of condom
conundrum — see conundrum
tickler file — see tickler file
cooper's prong
dram — see dram
References
- “tickler”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Tickler file on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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