- Vellicative
- Vellicative Vel"li*ca*tive, a. Having the power of vellicating, plucking, or twitching; causing vellication. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
vellicative — … Useful english dictionary
vellicate — vellication, n. vellicative, adj. /vel i kayt /, v., vellicated, vellicating. v.t. 1. to pluck; twitch. 2. to nip, pinch, or the like. 3. to cause to twitch. v.i. 4. to move with spasmodic convulsions; twitch. [1595 1605; < L vellicatus, ptp. of… … Universalium
vellicate — verb a) to touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements … Wiktionary
eutripsia — noun /juːˈtɹɪpsɪə/ joyful fondling or caressing , 1974: They were erudite and sensual about the orectic, the synchronous, the vellicative, about eutripsia, salacious aromas, amplitudes. Guy Davenport, Tatlin! … Wiktionary
fidgety — Synonyms and related words: agitated, all shook up, all overish, bustling, convulsive, discomposed, disquieted, disturbed, eclamptic, excited, feverish, fidgeting, fitful, flurried, flustered, fluttering, fluttery, fretful, fussing, fussy, goosey … Moby Thesaurus
fitful — Synonyms and related words: adrift, afloat, aimless, alternating, amorphous, broken, broken off, capricious, careening, casual, catchy, changeable, changeful, chopped off, choppy, convulsive, correctly, decently, decorously, decousu, desultory,… … Moby Thesaurus
jerking — Synonyms and related words: anhydration, blast freezing, bottling, brining, canning, convulsive, corning, curing, dehydration, desiccation, dry curing, drying, eclamptic, embalming, evaporation, fidgetiness, fidgets, fidgety, fitful, formication … Moby Thesaurus
jerky — Synonyms and related words: aspic, barbecue, beef, beef extract, beef tea, boiled meat, bouilli, bouillon, broken, broken off, bully, bully beef, capricious, careening, cataclysmic, catchy, changeable, changing, charqui, chipped beef, chopped off … Moby Thesaurus
jumpy — Synonyms and related words: agitated, all shook up, all overish, anxious, bashful, bustling, convulsive, cowardly, diffident, discomposed, disquieted, disturbed, eclamptic, edgy, excited, fearful, fearing, fearsome, feverish, fidgeting, fidgety,… … Moby Thesaurus
orgasmic — Synonyms and related words: abandoned, amok, anarchic, angry, bellowing, berserk, blustering, blusterous, blustery, carried away, cataclysmic, chaotic, concupiscent, convulsive, delirious, demoniac, disastrous, distracted, eclamptic, ecstatic,… … Moby Thesaurus