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Definition of Tickly
1. easily tickled [adj TICKLIER, TICKLIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tickly
Literary usage of Tickly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Outdoor Handy Book by Daniel Carter Beard (1900)
"The tickly-Bender, or Running Tommie. The leader finds a weak place in the ice
which is called a " tickly-bender," and skating over it cries, " I conquer! ..."
2. Just So Stories for Little Children by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
"He took that skin, and he shook that skin, and he scrubbed that skin, and he
rubbed that skin just as full of old, dry, stale, tickly cake-crumbs and ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"(34° C) "Not so cold, and the pressure is getting light and tickly; still wet.'
(38° C) "Getting warm: still some pressure; feels moist rather than wet. ..."
4. German Atrocities, Their Nature and Philosophy: Studies in Belgium and by Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker, Newell Dwight Hillis (1918)
"On an occasion when playing "tickly benders" on the thin ice of the canal, the
ice gave way and I fell into the water and was wetted from head to foot. ..."
5. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Auria h,id done nothing but wisely and pc!i- tickly, in setting the Venetians
together by the ears with the Turks, and opening a ..."
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