tingle

See also: Tingle

English

Etymology

From Middle English tinglen, a variant of tinclen (“to tinkle”). More at tinkle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪŋɡəl/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

Verb

1. (intransitive) To ring.
2. (transitive) 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.

3. (intransitive) To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
   • 1913 Eleanor Porter: Pollyanna: Chapter 8:

     For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose. Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole procedure, was, in spite of herself, beginning to tingle with a feeling perilously near to excitement.

4. (intransitive) 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

5. (transitive) To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

   Tingle your tastebuds with these exotic dishes.

Translations

to have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation

• Dutch: tintelen (nl), kriebelen (nl)
• Esperanto: pikpiki
• Finnish: pistellä (fi), kihelmöidä, nipistellä (fi)
• French: picoter (fr)
• German: kribbeln (de), prickeln (de)
• Italian: formicolare (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: tirpt
• Maori: tītī (of the ears), ongaonga (referring to the ears), nanamu (of taste and of the skin), tengatenga (of the funny bone)
• Occitan: picalhar, formiguejar
• Portuguese: formigar
• Russian: испы́тывать (ru) (ispýtyvatʹ) покалывание (ru) n (pokalyvanije)

to make a ringing sound

• Dutch: rinkelen (nl), tinkelen (nl)
• Maori: tī, tītī (in the ears), wheo, wheowheo
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Noun

tingle (plural tingles)

1. A prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

Translations

prickling sensation

• Esperanto: pikpiko
• Finnish: kihelmöinti (fi), pistely (fi)
• French: picotement (fr) m
• German: Prickeln n
• Ilocano: pipikel
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• Italian: solletico (it) m
• Latgalian: tierpūni
• Latvian: notirpums m, tirpoņa f, tirpšana f
• Polish: dzwonienie (pl), mrowienie, swędzenie (pl)
• Russian: пока́лывание (ru) n (pokályvanije)

Anagrams

• Etling, elting, linget, niglet