[f. TICKLE a. or v. + TAIL sb.]

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  1.  A loose or wanton woman; cf. TICKLE a. 3 b. Now dial.

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c. 1430.  Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 31. Canst thou no better come to holynesse, Than lese thiself al for a tikel-taylle?

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1869.  J. P. Morris, Lancs. Gloss. (E.D.D.).

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  2.  That which (or one who) tickles the ‘tail’; see quots.

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1785.  Grose, Dict. Vulg. T., Tickle tail, a rod, or schoolmaster.

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1828.  Craven Gloss., Tickle-tail, a rod.

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  3.  A game: = THREAD-NEEDLE 1. dial.

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1821.  Blackw. Mag., Aug., 36/2. Another game played by a number of children with a hold of one another, or tickle-tails, as it is technically called in Scotland, is, Through the Needle-e’e.

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