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Quotation dates: 1608-1661
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Tic(k)le, adj. [ME and e.m.E. tykel (c1325), ticle, tikel (both Piers Plowman), tickle (1515). Cf. Kittill adj.] Ticklish, tricky, difficult. = Kittill adj. 3. — 1608 Calderwood VI 790.
Knowing his inclinatioun to be tickle in these points of religioun a1658 Blair in a1658 Durham Scandal (1740) v.
A clear discussing of that tickle question 1661 Brodie Diary 217.
I … found my L. Mortoun's buisines ticle; and his professd freinds not sure to him
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