tickling someone's fancy
tickling someone's fancy is the present participle and gerund 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)
- 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
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