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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
kittle .
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Examples
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Pronounced to rhyme with "shall" only the vowel must be very much prolonged. kittled = tickled. myek = make. gairdle cake = girdle cake, i.e. a cake baked on a griddle.
The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties Richard Runciman Terry 1901
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And she tarried a space of time, and felt him and kittled him, and would have drawn him to her intent.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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Girl Guides are agitating and demonstrating with their parents' blessing, although it's debatable what use their stick-whittling skills will be once they're kittled into a four-hour stand-off by police.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Girl Guides are agitating and demonstrating with their parents' blessing, although it's debatable what use their stick-whittling skills will be once they're kittled into a four-hour stand-off by police.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Got an imola kittled lambreta just as fast as a TS1 and can be a bit trouser filling ovr 80mph
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Episcopalians and Methodists, and fools and fiddlers, and Papists and pie-bakers, and doctors and drugsters; by the shop-folk, that sell trash and trumpery at three prices — and so up got the bonny new Well, and down fell the honest auld town of Saint Ronan’s, where blithe decent folk had been heartsome eneugh for mony a day before ony o’ them were born, or ony sic vapouring fancies kittled in their cracked brains.”
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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Willie the best fiddler that ever kittled thairm with horse-hair.’
Redgauntlet 2008
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Little Benjie seemed somewhat dismayed at my appearance; but, calculating on my placability, and remembering, perhaps, that the ill-used Solomon was no palfrey of mine, he speedily affected great glee, and almost in one breath assured the itinerants that I was 'a grand gentleman, and had plenty of money, and was very kind to poor folk; 'and informed me that this was' Willie Steenson -- Wandering Willie the best fiddler that ever kittled thairm with horse-hair. '
Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801
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a little kittle left her, an 'the big-kittled gal was jest pestered with beaux.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
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The bleat of sheep, till Ruth’s voice kittled your ear?
Krindlesyke Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 1920
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