I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fancy
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So, if a tarantula could tickle your fancy , Ray may be able to help.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tickle sb's fancy
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I hate being tickled.
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When I was little my older brother would tickle me till tears ran down my face.
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Your beard tickles.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her company's over-used slogan always tickled him.
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I remember her complaining joyfully, that the mattress underneath her was tickling her.
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It is not clear where Sir Trevor learned to tickle the ivories.
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She tickled it with her fingers.
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She was tickled just to see Monica Seles and Hakeem Olajuwon.
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The dancers tickled the imaginations of San Franciscans.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I've had this tickle in my throat for over a week.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An innocent tickle in your throat could have more serious repercussions if you sip the wrong syrup.
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By 8.00 I felt the first slight warning tickle .
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Charity felt a tickle on the back of her neck as lightning split the air.
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Except for the tickle of the moustache.
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Nine-year-old Betsy, usually ready for a kiss and a tickle , looked unhappy.
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No prizes for seeing what tickles Lebed there.
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Or how about the faint chirp prodding you to invent an ugly doll with a hankering for tickles?
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Then he started to cough, forced himself to control the tickle he felt at the back of his throat.