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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : tit-l-ey-ting |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɪt lˌeɪ tɪŋ |
Definition of titillating
Origin :- 1610s, back-formation from titillation. Related: Titillated; titillating.
- verb excite, stimulate
- You may curse in five languages: it is music to their titillating ears.
- Extract from : « Our Southern Highlanders » by Horace Kephart
- Hers was actually the titillating wonder of a bird which, captured, closes its wings, that surrender can be so sweet.
- Extract from : « Americans All » by Various
- This woman is doubtless miserable, though after all, perhaps, the titillating joys of glory are not unknown to her.
- Extract from : « Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry » by Charles Baudelaire
- These ancient snuff-boxes furnish proof of the love of our ancestors for the titillating powder.
- Extract from : « Ten Thousand Wonderful Things » by Edmund Fillingham King
- These were "bloods," tremendous swells, grown men with a titillating flavour of the world about their distinguished persons.
- Extract from : « The Hill » by Horace Annesley Vachell
- The titillating odour of this concoction came now, on the breeze, to the nostrils of Tansey, awakening in him hunger for it.
- Extract from : « Roads of Destiny » by O. Henry
- Knows he that never took a pinch, Nosey, the pleasure thence which flows, Knows he the titillating joysWhich my nose knows?
- Extract from : « The Book of Humorous Verse » by Various
- He had faced danger and tragedy since he could toddle, and fear had never overridden the titillating sense of adventure.
- Extract from : « Cow-Country » by B. M. Bower
- They snap snappishly at the titillating straw; they snatch at it with their weird little hands; they parry it skilfully.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 » by Various
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