Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word kittle pitchering.
Examples
Sorry, no example sentences found.
sionnach commented on the word kittle pitchering
A jocular method of hobbling or bothering a troublesome teller of long stories: this is done by contradicting some very immaterial circumstance at the beginning of the narration, the objections to which being settled, others are immediately started to some new particular of like consequence; thus impeding, or rather not suffering him to enter into, the main story. Kittle pitchering is often practised in confederacy, one relieving the other, by which the design is rendered less obvious.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
July 5, 2009
bilby commented on the word kittle pitchering
The DVT doesn't list a meaning for kittle alone. Any idea foxy-pie?
July 5, 2009
sionnach commented on the word kittle pitchering
The Century Dictionary lists the following, among others, for kittle:
verb transitive: to tickle,
adjective: ticklish, difficult, not easily managed, vexatious
verb intransitive: to bring forth young
July 5, 2009