tickle Copy link • tickle: tĭtillo, 1: pleasure which t.s the senses, voluptas quae quasi titillaret sensus, Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 39 (always fig. in Cic. and qual. by tanquam, quasi): Hor. S. 2, 3, 179. Phr.: to t., titillationem adhibere, Cic. N. D. 1, 40, 103: to t. the palate, tergere palatum, Hor. S. 2, 2, 24: v. excite.