Meaning

9 senses
  1. (intransitive)To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

    My hands were tingling from the cold.

    I got hit in the butt yesterday, and it still tingles.

    cause a stinging or tingling sensation

  2. To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

    (intransitive)To feel an ASMR response.

    I tingled

    This made me tingle

  3. (transitive)To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

    Tingle your tastebuds with these exotic dishes.

  4. To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

    (transitive)To cause to feel an ASMR response.

    tingle someone

    поко́люватиpokóljuvaty, поколо́тиpokolóty

  5. (intransitive)To ring; to tinkle or twang.

    дзвони́тиdzvonýty

  6. (transitive)To cause to ring, to tinkle.

    подзво́нюватиpodzvónjuvaty, подзвони́тиpodzvonýty

  7. (transitive)To fasten with a tingle; to tack.

  8. (transitive)To patch with a tingle; to cover a hole in something that requires it to be watertight.

  9. (transitive)To secure the middle of a guide line by means of a tingle.

Examples

24 sentences
  1. My left arm is tingling.

    У мене в руці мурашки.

    deMein linker Arm kribbelt.

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  2. You'll feel a tingling sensation.

    ruВы почувствуете покалывание.

    deSie werden ein Kribbeln fühlen.

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  3. The cola made my tongue tingle.

    ruОт колы у меня защипало язык.

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  4. What makes you tingle real bad?

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  5. I experience tingling in my hands.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 4
to have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation:
to cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation:
intransitive: to ring:
transitive: to cause to ring:
Русский
By meaning 1
to have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation:

Origin

From Middle English tinglen, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English tingen (“to

From Middle English tinglen, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English tingen (“to tink”) + -len, equivalent to ting + -le. Alternatively, possibly a variant of Middle English tinclen (“to tinkle”) or from Old English tinclian (“to tickle”). More at tinkle. Compare also West Frisian tingelje (“to tinkle”), Dutch tingelen (“to tinkle, jingle”).

cognate with the Middle High German zingel

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Forms

tingles, tingling, tingled, tingled
Base formtingle · to tingle
3rd person singulartingles
Present participletingling
Past simpletingled
Past participletingled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytingle
he, she, ittingles

Past simpleLesson

all personstingled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave tingled
he, she, ithas tingled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tingle

Synonyms

3 synonyms
to feel a prickly sensation:itchB2
to ring, cause to ring:tinkle
Close in meaning
  • cause a stinging or tingling sensation:prickle

Word family

11 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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