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reaction to a tickle
Posted: 09 November 2002 11:37 AM   [ Ignore ]
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Is there a word for the specific type of shiver/shudder that a person does when his back is tickled?  Sort of a wiggle away from the tickle.

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Posted: 09 November 2002 11:47 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Recoil may be a little too harsh, so how about shrink, shy, flinch or start?

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‘...and that is good English’  (Henry V, V.ii.280)

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Posted: 10 November 2002 12:14 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Wriggle?  

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Posted: 10 November 2002 04:19 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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thanks!!! ;D

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