tingle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tinglen, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English tingen (“to tink”) + -len, equivalent to ting + -le. Alternatively, possibly a variant of Middle English tinclen (“to tinkle”) or from Old English tinclian (“to tickle”). More at tinkle. Compare also West Frisian tingelje (“to tinkle”), Dutch tingelen (“to tinkle, jingle”).
Base: ting
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: tingles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tingling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tingled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tingled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tingles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My hands were tingling from the cold.
I got hit in the butt yesterday, and it still tingles.
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.
gloss: To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I tingled
This made me tingle
gloss: To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Tingle your tastebuds with these exotic dishes.
gloss: To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: tingle someone
gloss: To ring; to tinkle or twang.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.
1859-1895, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round
sharp tingling bells
The wind-chime tingling of halyards slapping against masts, the constant creaking of wooden boats, the gurgling of water passing under the hull.
They delightfully ring to greet the rising sun and still tingle during the darkest night.
At that precise moment, after a week of silence, the solar chime forcefully tingled, loudly and clearly, again and again.
gloss: To cause to ring, to tinkle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Jackson, the butler, older of course, and altered he can see at a glance, opens the door almost before his hand is off the bell he has only gently tingled.
[…]the Captain they trusted so well
Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
And that was to tingle his bell.
gloss: A prickling or mildly stinging sensation; frisson.
pos: noun
gloss: A prickling or mildly stinging sensation; frisson.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: get/give tingles
gloss: A tingling sound; a chime or tinkle.
pos: noun
examples: Their every chime, ring, and tingle sings with joy and makes wonderful music as they dance with the swirling winds of nature.
The tingle of a wind chime drifted to her on the ocean breeze.
The tingle of bells is crisp, cutting the Tibetan air with a clarity that feels like blue porcelain cracking against the endless chime of bells.
Synonyms: itch
Related words: ting
tink
tinkle
Derived words: atingle
my spider sense is tingling
spine-tingling
tinglehead
tingler
tinglesome
tinglish
tingly
tingle immunity
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: وَخَزَ
roman: waḵaza
lang: Arabic
word: نَمِلَ
roman: namila
lang: Bulgarian
word: щипя
roman: štipja
lang: Bulgarian
word: изтръпвам
roman: iztrǎpvam
lang: Czech
word: brnět
lang: Czech
word: mravenčit
lang: Dutch
word: tintelen
lang: Dutch
word: kriebelen
lang: Esperanto
word: pikpiki
lang: Finnish
word: pistellä
lang: Finnish
word: kihelmöidä
lang: Finnish
word: nipistellä
lang: French
word: picoter
lang: Galician
word: formigar
lang: German
word: kribbeln
lang: German
word: prickeln
lang: Hindi
word: सिहरन
roman: sihran
lang: Italian
word: formicolare
lang: Italian
word: pizzicare
lang: Latvian
word: tirpt
lang: Māori
word: tītī
lang: Māori
word: ongaonga
lang: Māori
word: nanamu
lang: Māori
word: tengatenga
lang: Occitan
word: picalhar
lang: Occitan
word: formiguejar
lang: Polish
word: mrowić
lang: Portuguese
word: formigar
lang: Russian
word: пока́лывать
roman: pokályvatʹ
lang: Russian
word: онемева́ть
roman: onemevátʹ
lang: Spanish
word: hormiguear
lang: Turkish
word: uyuşmak
lang: Turkish
word: karıncalanmak
lang: Ukrainian
word: коло́тися
roman: kolótysja
lang: Finnish
word: pistellä
lang: Finnish
word: nipistellä
lang: Finnish
word: kutkuttaa (esp. tastebuds)
lang: Galician
word: formigar
lang: Ukrainian
word: поко́лювати
roman: pokóljuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: поколо́ти
roman: pokolóty
lang: Bulgarian
word: изтръпване
roman: iztrǎpvane
lang: Bulgarian
word: бодеж
roman: bodež
lang: Esperanto
word: pikpiko
lang: Finnish
word: kihelmöinti
lang: Finnish
word: pistely
lang: French
word: picotement
lang: German
word: Prickeln
lang: Ilocano
word: pipikel
lang: Italian
word: solletico
lang: Latgalian
word: tierpūni
lang: Latvian
word: notirpums
lang: Latvian
word: tirpoņa
lang: Latvian
word: tirpšana
lang: Polish
word: dzwonienie
lang: Polish
word: mrowienie
lang: Polish
word: swędzenie
lang: Russian
word: пока́лывание
roman: pokályvanije
lang: Spanish
word: hormigueo
lang: Spanish
word: hormigueamiento
lang: Ukrainian
word: поко́лювання
roman: pokóljuvannja