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- [ting-guh l]
- /ˈtɪŋ gəl/
- /ˈtɪŋ.ɡəl/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [ting-guh l]
- /ˈtɪŋ gəl/
Definitions of tingle word
- verb without object tingle to have a sensation of slight prickles, stings, or tremors, as from cold, a sharp blow, excitement, etc.: I tingle all over. 1
- verb without object tingle to cause such a sensation: The scratch tingles. 1
- noun tingle a tingling sensation. 1
- noun tingle the tingling action of cold, a blow, excitement, etc. 1
- intransitive verb tingle feel prickly sensation 1
- noun tingle prickly sensation 1
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Origin of tingle
First appearance:
before 1350 One of the 20% oldest English words
1350-1400; Middle English tinglen (v.), variant of tinkle
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Parts of speech for Tingle
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
tingle popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 80% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
tingle usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for tingle
verb tingle
- anguished — Anguished means showing or feeling great mental suffering or physical pain.
- bite — If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you.
- blow away — If you say that you are blown away by something, or if it blows you away, you mean that you are very impressed by it.
- burn — If there is a fire or a flame somewhere, you say that there is a fire or flame burning there.
- cut to the quick — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
noun tingle
- chinking — a chinking sound: the chink of ice in a glass.
- clanging — a clanging sound.
- clink — If objects made of glass, pottery, or metal clink or if you clink them, they touch each other and make a short, light sound.
- formication — a tactile hallucination involving the belief that something is crawling on the body or under the skin.
- deadness — The state of not being alive. Having the property of lifelessness, as if dead.
Top questions with tingle
- feet tingle when sitting?
- what does it mean when your legs tingle?
- why do my fingers tingle?
- why does my face tingle?
- what does it mean when your fingers tingle?
- why do my hands tingle?
- why do my feet tingle?
- what does it mean when your feet tingle?
- why does my tongue tingle?
- what does it mean when your fingertips tingle?
- what does it mean when your hands tingle?
- why do my lips tingle?
- legs tingle when sitting?
- why does my hand tingle?
- what does tingle mean?
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