ticklishness

It had to do with the ticklishness on top of the head.

She had heard somewhere that ticklishness made girls more appealing.

The ticklishness was like a shield, a soft, warm sheet of film.

But it was a ticklishness I could happily endure.

No distention from a swollen bladder; his exclamation appeared to be due entirely to ticklishness.

He posited that ticklishness might confer an evolutionary advantage by enticing the individual to protect these areas.

Ticklishness was another good sign.

Aethelnor was poking in the indicated pocket and giggled when the human responded with feigned ticklishness.

Spike has a few weaknesses that Tom tries to capitalize upon: his possessiveness about his bone and his ticklishness.

Fatty and Buster have a series of adventures trying to beat St. John, until they discover his one weakness: his ticklishness.

The dragon offered to lick them clean, but at the first lick Electra dissolved into titillations of ticklishness, and that set them all off in helpless laughter.

The ticklishness on the very top of my head and the dry cracking sound at the base of my neck: between them lay the means to that suspension of judgment.

It is unknown why certain people find areas of the body to be more ticklish than others; additionally, studies have shown that there is no significant difference in ticklishness between the genders.

Sometimes there is great modification of ticklishness, occasionally unwonted fears of insects or aversion to the touch of certain objects or persons; and half imagined fear of dirt.

I followed, almost unaware of the ticklishness of the exploit to a tyro, so buoyed up was I by her example and by my scorn of the weaklings for'ard.

She felt it inside her body as a consuming ticklishness, which turned into the knowledge that I was clinging to my human form, like all the rest, except that my particular way was incomprehensible to them.

The result was thought to be a spectacular assortment of symptoms, including lassitude, irritability, depression, confusion, palpitations of the heart, headaches, forgetfulness, insomnia, muscle spasms, stomach upsets, writing cramps, ticklishness and weepiness.

"Captain," said Roget, his voice lowering in proportion to his nearness to Kirk, "while I realize the ticklishness of the situation, I have to point out that Their Serene Highnesses' party is growing extremely restless."

If half-naked, topless or with bare feet, the victim may be subjected to thorough and prolonged tickling until helpless with laughter, sometimes in order to extract a promise or pledge to the group, sometimes merely to elicit a confession of ticklishness.

He delights in wordplay - "haphephobia" (extreme ticklishness), "fat-weaseled," "bodacious and whoopty" - in conceits, doggerel and acronymic gymnastics, occasionally to the point where you begin to wonder if you, as the reader, are not somewhat incidental to the process.

But then I had a quick sensation of ticklishness on the top of my head, a shiver in my body, and I remembered out of nowhere a peculiar whistling that don Juan used to perform at night and had endeavored to teach me.

One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time - I went very slowly, which triggered her ticklishness, and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers, but she was brave, she stayed put.