The corpus record

γαργᾰλ-ισμός

gargalismos · ὁ

tickling

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Where it lives

Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Philebus 1 · 0.57/10k
Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k

What it meant — LSJ

tickling

tickling (γέλως διὰ κινήσεως τοῦ μορίου τοῦ περὶ τὴν μασχάλην Arist. PA 673a8), Hp. Alim. 26, Pl. Smp. 189a (pl.), Phdr. 253e, Epicur. Fr. 412 (pl.); ἐν τῷ σώματι διέδραμε γ. Hegesipp. 1.16; ἡδονὴ γαργαλισμοῦ ἐφίεται Ph. 1.118, cf. 212 (pl.), Plu. Amat. 2.765c: γάργαλος, ὁ (more Att. acc. to Moer., cf. Ar. Th. 133), and γαργάλη, ἡ, are cited by Erot. s.v. γαργαλισμός, fr. Ar. Fr. 175 and Diph. 25.

In the wild

γαργαλισμοῦ · gargalismou Plato, Phaedrus 254 (DIORISIS sentence 480)
γαργαλισμῶν · gargalismōn Plato, Philebus 46
γαργαλισμῶν · gargalismōn Plato, Symposium 189 (DIORISIS sentence 288)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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