a. [f. TICKLE a. + -Y.] Ticklish; = KITTLY.
1530. Palsgr., 327/2. Tyckely, that can nat abyde tyckelynge.
1661. Feltham, Resolves, II. xxxv. 252. Nor did they, like ticklie Italians, pet at this and put another in his room.
1825. Jamieson, Tickly, puzzling, difficult.
1897. Flandrau, Harvard Episodes, 223. I was laughing so that my wrists were all sort of tickly on the inside.
b. Tickly-benders, thin ice which bends under one’s weight; = KITTLY-BENDERS.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxii. (1856), 179. The young ice glazing it over, so as to form a viscid sea of sludge and tickly-benders.
