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kittly, a. Sc. and U.S.|ˈkɪtlɪ|
[f. kittle v.1 + -y; cf. Norw. kitlug, Sw. kitlig, LG. kitlich, G. kitzlich. For the sense ‘risky’ in the compound kittly-benders, cf. kittle a.]
Easily tickled; susceptible or sensitive to tickling; ticklish; tickly.
1822Galt Steam-boat viii. 155, I was no so kittly as she thought, and could thole her progs and jokes. 1830― Lawrie T. v. ii. (1849) 199 It made the very soles of my feet kittly to hear it.
b. kittly-benders (also corruptly kettle-de-benders), thin ice which bends under one's weight; the sport of running over this. (U.S. colloq.)
1854Thoreau Walden 353 Let us not play at kittly-benders. 1872E. E. Hale How to Do it iii. 46 You will, with unfaltering step, move quickly over the kettle-de-benders of this broken essay. |