Tickle and Work

Tickle

Tickle verb - Touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.

Work and tickle are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Work" instead a verb "Tickle".

Nearby Words: ticklish, tickled, tickling, tickler

Work

Work verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

Tickle and work are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Tickle" instead a verb "Work".

Nearby Words: works, working, worked, workable, worker

Mutual synonyms

Common collocations

people tickle people work people
thanks tickle thanks work thanks
body tickle body work body
way tickle way work way
Other words: bit, little, times.

Both words in one sentence

  • Deadly Lunge Unfortunately, it didn't work, due to Spongebob having the control to his tickle-belt on hand.
    Source: Deadly Lunge
  • Joke Item This doesn't work in every area with those types of items (the brains of your campmates), so it mostly just lets you...Tickle people.
    Source: Joke Item
  • Perfect Strangers did this with a bottle of wine, by having Larry try to teach Balki the basics of how these auctions work and end up winning the wine... and then having Balki tickle some bidders into making Accidental Bids of their own to make a profit from the wine.
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Work and Tickle. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/tickle/work
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