subs. (old).—The female pudendum: see MONOSYLLABLE, &c. [Properly the touch-hole of a pistol.] Hence LIGHT (or TICKLE) OF THE SERE = wanton; fond of bawdy laughter (HALLIWELL).
[?]. Commune Secretary and Jalowsye [HALLIWELL].
| She that is fayre, lusty, and yonge, | |
| And can comon in termes wyth fyled tonge, | |
| And wyll abyde whysperynge in the eare, | |
| Thynke ye her tayle is not LYGHTE OF THE SEARE? |
1596. SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, ii. 2, 336. The clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are TICKLE OF THE SERE.
1620. H. HOWARD, Defensative against the Poison of Supposed Prophecies [DOUCE, ii. 230]. Moods and humours of the vulgar sort to be so loose and TICKLE OF THE SEARE.
