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1. Cause a stinging or tingling sensation
   - prickle

1. An almost pleasurable sensation of fright
   "a tingle of surprise shot through him";
   - frisson, shiver, chill, quiver, shudder, thrill
    
2. A somatic sensation as from many tiny stings
   - prickling, tingling

Derived forms: tingles, tingling, tingled

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

Encyclopedia: Tingle