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noun

Tickler n.

One who, or that which, tickles.

Something puzzling or difficult.

A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity. (Com. Cant, U. S.)

A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks. (Eng.)

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Etymology of 'Tickler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tickler" Quotes from Famous Books

... says this key-tickler, when he was a youth, he was hired by Koussevitzky, then also a young fellow, to play the piano scores of ...

— The World's Great Men of Music - Story-Lives of Master Musicians • Harriette Brower

... said. "The master's very 'tickler 'bout them howls. Why, if I was to kill one, he'd ...

— Burr Junior • G. Manville Fenn

... exclaimed Dinah, with a satisfied air. "I knows she won't starve 'em at de table, even ef she suah has terrible 'tickler manners. But ef she says dey shan't eat 'tween meals, den I'll says to her as how dey can. I ain't gwine to hab mah honey lambs starvin', dat's whut I ain't!" and ...

— The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West • Laura Lee Hope

... nursed, Capp'd, papp'd, napp'd, and lapp'd from the first On the knees of Prodigality, Her childhood was one eternal round Of the game of going on Tickler's ground Picking up ...

— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood

Words linked to "Tickler" : tickler coil, file, tickler file