tickle
要点くすぐる
意味
- 〈人・身体の一部など〉をくすぐる,むずむずさせる
- 〈人の心・気持ち〉をくすぐる,くすぐってうれしがらせる(楽しませる)
- くすぐったい,むずむずする
- くすぐったい(むずがゆい)感じ
例文
I was tickled by her breath against my hair.
彼女の息が髪に当たってくすぐったかった。
I'm tickled pink about winning 10,000 yen at the horse races.
競馬で万馬券を当ててウハウハなんだ。
I'm very ticklish; tickle me!
僕、めっちゃくすぐったがり屋なんだ。くすぐってみて！
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English tiklen, tikelen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a frequentative form of Middle English tikken (“to touch lightly”), thus equivalent to tick + -le; or perhaps related to Old English tinclian (“to tickle”). Compare North Frisian tigele (“to tickle”) (Hallig dialect), and tiikle (“to tickle”) (Amrum dialect), German dialectal zicklen (“to excite; stir up”). Alternatively, from a metathetic alteration of Middle English kitelen ("to tickle"; see kittle). Both are ultimately sound-symbolic.