tingle

From Middle English tinglen, a variant of tinclen (“to tinkle”). More at tinkle.

• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

tingle (third-person singular simple present tingles, present participle tingling, simple past and past participle tingled)

1. (intransitive) To ring.
2. (transitive) To cause to ring.
   • 1874, Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, fit 2:

     […] the Captain they trusted so well

     Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,

     And that was to tingle his bell.

3. (intransitive) To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
   • 1913 Eleanor Porter: Pollyanna: Chapter 8:

     For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose. Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole procedure, was, in spite of herself, beginning to tingle with a feeling perilously near to excitement.

4. (intransitive) To make ringing sounds; to twang.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13

     Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.

   • Charles Dickens

     sharp tingling bells

5. (transitive) To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

   Tingle your tastebuds with these exotic dishes.

tingle (plural tingles)

1. A prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

• Etling, elting, linget, niglet