tingle
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈtɪŋɡəl/
- You feel a slight tingle on your skin when a cool breeze blows.
- feel the tingle
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- About a year to where the I still have tingling that, that that's never left.
- What type of travelling gives you the tingles?
- That buzz, that tingle that you're feeling is the process of change.
- Expansive may feel like a twinge or a tingle of excitement or joy or anticipation.
- I like the cool tingle it's very refreshing and this just has a nice shine.
- I'm going to be bringing you tingles, tingles, tingles for your little tiny ears, hand sounds.
- It's very deep and dark and tingly and you paint the perfect tingle with the vodka.
Examples
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There was, mingling with the familiar taste, a fruity tingle, faintly sweet.
Fiction book (1998) -
Ooh, I just got a tingle.
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And now I had the funny little tingle you get with a full house.
Fiction book (1994) -
I felt a little tingle.
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I bet Richard gets a tingle every time he takes a sip of coffee.
Fiction book (1990) -
You feel that tingle of the champagne on your lips?
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Almost at once, he felt that tingle in his spinal cord.
Fiction book (1997) -
In spite of himself, Claude felt a tingle of pride in his cousin.
Fiction book (1990) -
"The enthusiasm of the speaker made my blood tingle!" Taft said.
Academic text (2004) -
Still, she remembered the tingle of recognition when she had spied him at the Corwell festival.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
155
3.5
A feeling in your body from touch, pain, or heat
50
1.0
A light, tingling feeling on the skin that can make you laugh
14
3.4
A slight prickling feeling like many tiny pins touching the skin
3
9.8
A sudden shiver of excitement or fear that you feel in your body
1
5.6
A tingling, slightly stinging feeling on the skin like many small pins
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2.8
A tingling feeling in the skin often felt after a hand or foot falls asleep
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Etymology
Tingle comes from the little sound word ting ('a small sharp sound') plus the ending -le that makes it feel like a small or repeated action. That's why a tingle is like many tiny 'taps' on your skin — a slight prickling or stinging feeling.