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tickle-footed

tickle-footed adjective: having unsure or slippery footing, or inconstant.

Adjective

tickle-footed

  1. (obsolete, poetic) having unsure or slippery footing, or inconstant.
    • You were ever tickle-footed, and would not truss round.c. 1613–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Scornful Lady, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC...
    • tickle-footed wanton1824, Gilmour, Or The Last Lockinge

Origin of tickle-footed

From the obsolete adjective tickle (“unsteady”).

Questions about tickle-footed

What does tickle-footed mean?
Tickle-footed means having unsure or slippery footing, or inconstant.
What part of speech is tickle-footed?
Tickle-footed is an adjective.

Words near tickle-footed in the dictionary

  1. tickle the ear
  2. tickle the ivories
  3. tickle the ivory
  4. tickle the sausage
  5. tickle the wire
  6. tickle-footed
  7. tickleace
  8. tickleaces
  9. tickleass
  10. tickleasses
  11. ticklebrain

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