ˈtickle-tail
[f. tickle a. or v. + tail n.]
1. A loose or wanton woman; cf. tickle a. 3 b. Now dial.
| c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 31 Canst thou no better come to holynesse, Than lese thiself al for a tikel⁓taylle? 1869 J. P. Morris Lancs. Gloss. (E.D.D.). |
2. That which (or one who) tickles the ‘tail’; see quots.
| 1785 Grose Dict. Vulg. T., Tickle tail, a rod, or schoolmaster. 1828 Craven Gloss., Tickle-tail, a rod. |
3. A game: = thread-needle 1. dial.
| 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. |