tickle someone's pickle

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tickle 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)

1. (idiomatic, colloquial) To amuse or astonish someone.
   • 1992, Chandler Brossard, As the Wolf Howls at My Door, page 269:

     Well, tickle my pickle and call me Uncle.

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

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

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

     That story never ceases to tickle my pickle!

   • 2017, Martin Pevsner, Human Bingo, →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.

2. (idiomatic, slang, transitive) To stimulate someone's penis sexually.
   • 1972, Joseph Anthony McCaffrey, The homosexual dialectic, page 200:

     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."

   • 2014, Cat Mason, Facing Me:

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

   • 2017, Bryan Reynolds, Intermedial Theater, →ISBN:

     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.