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tickle someone's pickle en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) To amuse or astonish someone.
    • Well, tickle my pickle and call me Uncle. 1992, Chandler Brossard, As the Wolf Howls at My Door, page 269:
    • But I like it on account of how it's like another language, like my bingo lingo or the stuff Togz comes up with. Some of the expressions really tickle my pickle, they're like shortcuts when you can nip through the park instead of having to go round the houses. 2017, Martin Pevsner, Human Bingo, →ISBN:
    • That story never ceases to tickle my pickle! 2015, Baker and Debra Burke-Simpkins, A Sensitive Dog's Guide to Love, Life and Counter Cruising, →ISBN:
    • If you have any hilarious dating stories, though, please do share them with me on social media, they always tickle my pickle! 2015, Louise Pentland, Life with a Sprinkle of Glitter, →ISBN:
  2. (idiomatic, slang, transitive) To stimulate someone's penis sexually.
    • Bryan seemingly tortures Jessica, who is "a related-multiplicity dancing in-process of assembling and de-assembling within, through, and near the multiplicity that is Reynolds" with the reputation of Sigmund Freud "Freud, Freud, Freud, Freud, Freud" and announces that "Freud famously begged, 'Please don't tickle my pickle. No pickle-tickle." Freud understood that too much tension and disjunction might be unpleasurable and even excruciating. 2017, Bryan Reynolds, Intermedial Theater, →ISBN:
    • Come on Daisy, don't hold out on me. If you won't tickle my pickle, someone has to. 2014, Cat Mason, Facing Me:
    • Cole slowly put his face into the man's clothes, his own sweat plastering his hair over his brow, a few pubic hairs brushing against his nose. "That's the way, fairy, tickle my pickle." 1972, Joseph Anthony McCaffrey, The homosexual dialectic, page 200:

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tickled someone's pickle Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
tickled someone's pickle Tense=Past lexicographic
tickling someone's pickle Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
tickles someone's pickle Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic