1. A somatic sensation as from many tiny stings
   "She felt a tingle in her feet as circulation returned";
   - prickling, tingling
    
2. An almost pleasurable sensation of fright
   "a tingle of surprise shot through him";
   - frisson, shiver, chill, quiver, shudder, thrill [literary]

1. Cause a stinging or tingling sensation
   "The spicy food tingled on her tongue";
   - prickle

Derived forms: tingles, tingled, tingling

Type of: fear, fearfulness, fright, itch, somaesthesia [Brit, Cdn], somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia [N. Amer]

Encyclopedia: Tingle