What you are feeling is gigil. In its latest quarterly update ... or the pleasure of seeing someone or something cute or adorable, typically physically manifested by the tight clenching of ...

There's now a word for it: gigil. Gigil (pronounced ghee-gill) is part of a list of "untranslatable" words, or those that do not have English equivalents, that have been added to the Oxford ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has officially added the Tagalog word "gigil," which describes the intense urge to pinch or squeeze something overwhelmingly cute. This unique emotional ...

WHEN you see something cute — a baby, an object or an animal, for example, and you feel the urge to squeeze whatever it is, there is now an English word for it. And that word happens to originate from ...

Gigil, a Philippine word added to the Oxford English Dictionary, decribes the feeling we get when we see someone or something cute Ever found yourself speechless in the presence of overwhelming ...