tingle

verb

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.”

   “For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose. Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole procedure, was, in spite of herself, beginning to tingle with a feeling perilously near to excitement.”

2. (intransitive)To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

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

   “tingle someone”

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

   “Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.”

   “1859-1895, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round sharp tingling bells”

   “The wind-chime tingling of halyards slapping against masts, the constant creaking of wooden boats, the gurgling of water passing under the hull.”

   “They delightfully ring to greet the rising sun and still tingle during the darkest night.”

   “At that precise moment, after a week of silence, the solar chime forcefully tingled, loudly and clearly, again and again.”

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

   “Jackson, the butler, older of course, and altered he can see at a glance, opens the door almost before his hand is off the bell he has only gently tingled.”

   “[…]the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.”

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

   “Tingle the middle down by placing a tingle at the toe, and a couple at the joints.”

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

   “If damage is localised then you may easily tingle it over and a perfectly good sound job may be made with a tingle.”

   “To put her on the other tack while we tingle a started butt would lose us twenty-four hours at least, maybe more.”

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

   “If there is much length of line it will require tingling up to keep it from sagging. To tingle a line it is best to have a plumbing place at that point were the tingle is to be fixed so as to ensure the work beging kept true.”

noun

1. A prickling or mildly stinging sensation; frisson.
2. (in-plural)A prickling or mildly stinging sensation; frisson.

   “get/give tingles”

3. A tingling sound; a chime or tinkle.

   “Their every chime, ring, and tingle sings with joy and makes wonderful music as they dance with the swirling winds of nature.”

   “The tingle of a wind chime drifted to her on the ocean breeze.”

   “The tingle of bells is crisp, cutting the Tibetan air with a clarity that feels like blue porcelain cracking against the endless chime of bells.”

4. A nail of the very smallest size; a tack.

   “From the diminutive "tingle" or baby tack up to the massive ship spike, almost every kind of nail is shown, not only in iron and steel, but also in copper, zinc, and brass,, and on the partition will be noticed a somewhat novel application of nails.”

   “Figs. 16, 17, 18 show method of forming a double welt, notice the copper tack or tingle to same as further security.”

   “Tingle the middle down by placing a tingle at the toe, and a couple at the joints.”

5. A patch that covers a hole in something that needs to be watertight, such as a roof or a boat.

   “If damage is localised then you may easily tingle it over and a perfectly good sound job may be made with a tingle. Metal tingles are not ; they require a lot of fastenings and even then are not easily made really watertight.”

   “With tin snips, cut the tingle to shape (some people bend the edges over to form a 1/4-inch hem), and lather it with polysulfide seam compound.”

   “The appearance of this basically unattractive repair can be marginally improved by making the tingle larger than is structurally necessary and then give it long chamfers to fair it in.”

   “Nail the tingle to the sheathing between the two slates below the one being fixed .”

   “A thin chamfered tingle (A) was fitted to the outboard face of the largest board and a thicker example (B) to the inboard face.”

6. An attachment in the middle of a long guide line to keep it from sagging.

   “The tingle is fastened on the top of the brick by a small pat of mortar, on which is placed a piece of brick to keep the tingle firm.”

   “a tingle is used to prevent the line from sagging in the middle if it is being used on a long wall”

   “To prevent a long line sagging, it can be given intermediate support with a tingle plate.”

name

1. A surname.