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hormigueo — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • tickle verb To touch someone lightly and repeatedly in a way that causes laughter, twitching, or discomfort.
  • tingle verb To feel a light prickling or stinging sensation on the skin.
  • tingling adj Producing a prickling or stinging sensation.

Senses

hormigueo is used for these senses in English:

  • pins and needles (informal) A tingling or prickling sensation, felt in a limb when a nerve compression is relieved and in other situations.
  • tickle An itchy feeling resembling the result of tickling.
  • tingle A prickling or mildly stinging sensation; frisson.
  • tingling A tingling sensation; pins and needles.

tickle — full definition

  1. verb To touch someone lightly and repeatedly in a way that causes laughter, twitching, or discomfort.
  2. verb To appeal to or amuse someone; to please or delight.
  3. noun The act or sensation of being tickled.

tingle — full definition

  1. verb To feel a light prickling or stinging sensation on the skin.
  2. noun A prickling or stinging sensation, often from excitement or cold.

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