tickle someone's pickle

verb

To amuse or astonish someone.

Meanings

verbtickle someone's pickle (third-person singular simple present tickles someone's pickle, present participle tickling someone's pickle, simple past and past participle tickled someone's pickle)

present singular third person tickles someone's pickle · participle present tickling someone's pickle · participle past tickled someone's pickle · past tickled someone's pickle

  1. colloquialidiomaticTo amuse or astonish someone.

    Well, tickle my pickle and call me Uncle.

    1992, Chandler Brossard, As the Wolf Howls at My Door, page 269
    3 more examples

    If you have any hilarious dating stories, though, please do share them with me on social media, they always tickle my pickle!

    2015, Louise Pentland, Life with a Sprinkle of Glitter, →ISBN

    That story never ceases to tickle my pickle!

    2015, Baker and Debra Burke-Simpkins, A Sensitive Dog's Guide to Love, Life and Counter Cruising, →ISBN

    But I like it on account of how it's like another language, like my bingo lingo or the stuff Togz comes up with. Some of the expressions really tickle my pickle, they're like shortcuts when you can nip through the park instead of having to go round the houses.

    2017, Martin Pevsner, Human Bingo, →ISBN
  2. idiomaticslangtransitiveTo stimulate someone's penis sexually.

    Come on Daisy, don't hold out on me. If you won't tickle my pickle, someone has to.

    2014, Cat Mason, Facing Me
    2 more examples

    Cole slowly put his face into the man's clothes, his own sweat plastering his hair over his brow, a few pubic hairs brushing against his nose. "That's the way, fairy, tickle my pickle."

    1972, Joseph Anthony McCaffrey, The homosexual dialectic, page 200

    Bryan seemingly tortures Jessica, who is "a related-multiplicity dancing in-process of assembling and de-assembling within, through, and near the multiplicity that is Reynolds" with the reputation of Sigmund Freud "Freud, Freud, Freud, Freud, Freud" and announces that "Freud famously begged, 'Please don't tickle my pickle. No pickle-tickle." Freud understood that too much tension and disjunction might be unpleasurable and even excruciating.

    2017, Bryan Reynolds, Intermedial Theater, →ISBN
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