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tickled someone's fancy

tickled someone's fancy is the simple past and past participle of tickle someone's fancy.

Meaning of tickle someone's fancy

Verb

tickle someone's fancy (third-person singular simple present tickles someone's fancy, present participle tickling someone's fancy, simple past and past participle tickled someone's fancy)

  1. To amuse, entertain, or appeal to someone; to stimulate someone's imagination in a favorable manner.
    • But the notion of Ralph Nickleby having directed it to be done, tickled his fancy so much, that he could not refrain from cracking all his ten fingers in succession.1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 11, in Nicholas Nickleby

Questions about tickled someone's fancy

What is tickled someone's fancy the simple past and past participle of?
Tickled someone's fancy is the simple past and past participle of tickle someone's fancy.

Words near tickled someone's fancy in the dictionary

  1. tickleass
  2. tickleasses
  3. ticklebrain
  4. tickled
  5. tickled pink
  6. tickled someone's fancy
  7. tickled someone's funny bone
  8. tickled someone's pickle
  9. tickled the dragon's tail
  10. tickled the ear
  11. tickled the ivories

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