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tickling someone's pickle

tickling someone's pickle is the present participle and gerund of tickle someone's pickle.

Meaning of tickle someone's pickle

Verb

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

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) To amuse or astonish someone.
    • Well, tickle my pickle and call me Uncle.1992, Chandler Brossard, As the Wolf Howls at My Door, page 269
  2. (idiomatic, slang, transitive) To stimulate someone's penis sexually.
    • Cole slowly put his face into the man's clothes, his own sweat plastering his hair over his brow, a few pubic hairs brushing against his nose. "That's the way, fairy, tickle my pickle."1972, Joseph Anthony McCaffrey, The homosexual dialectic, page 200

Questions about tickling someone's pickle

What is tickling someone's pickle the present participle and gerund of?
Tickling someone's pickle is the present participle and gerund of tickle someone's pickle.

Words near tickling someone's pickle in the dictionary

  1. tickliness
  2. tickling
  3. tickling pink
  4. tickling someone's fancy
  5. tickling someone's funny bone
  6. tickling someone's pickle
  7. tickling the dragon's tail
  8. tickling the ear
  9. tickling the ivories
  10. tickling the ivory
  11. tickling the wire

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