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Definition of Titillative
1. a. Tending or serving to titillate, or tickle; tickling.
Definition of Titillative
1. Adjective. titillating ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Titillative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Titillative
Literary usage of Titillative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1898)
"... the wake of JOSEPH A Chatsworth charger comes, With patient nerve ignoring
The titillative drums ; To suit his rider's balance A steady course he keeps, ..."
2. Putnam's Word Book: A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of by Louis Andrew Flemming (1919)
"a. titillative. ticklish, a. difficult, critical, delicate. tidbit, n. delicacy,
dainty, junket. tide, n. Associated words: ebb, flood, flow, ..."
3. Live Issues in Classical Study by Karl Pomeroy Harrington (1910)
"and whether colleges may come to begin their Latin teaching with the Latin
alphabet, are conundrums calculated to bring many a forefinger into titillative ..."
4. The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays by Nathan Drake (1811)
"I must not here omit one public-tickler of great eminency, and whose titillative
faculty must be allowed to be singly confined to the ear ..."
5. Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oscar W. Firkins (1915)
"... his good neighbors now and then by admitting cursorily that the war is "dreadful,"
but it is evident that the aroma of gunpowder is still titillative. ..."
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