titillate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
    tickle; vellicate.
  2. verb excite pleasurably or erotically
    • A titillating story appeared in the usually conservative magazine

WordNet

Tit"il*late transitive verb & intransitive verb
Etymology
L. titillatus, p.p. of titillare.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Titillated ; present participle & verbal noun Titillating
Definitions
  1. To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather.
    The pungent grains of titillating dust. Pope.

Webster 1913