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tickles someone's fancy

tickles someone's fancy is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 tickles someone's fancy

What is tickles someone's fancy the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tickles someone's fancy is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tickle someone's fancy.

Words near tickles someone's fancy in the dictionary

  1. tickler files
  2. ticklers
  3. Ticklerton
  4. tickles
  5. tickles pink
  6. tickles someone's fancy
  7. tickles someone's funny bone
  8. tickles someone's pickle
  9. tickles the dragon's tail
  10. tickles the ear
  11. tickles the ivories

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