tickleass

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English

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Etymology

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Perhaps imitative, as with the broader name kittiwake.[1]

Noun

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tickleass (plural tickleasses)

  1. (Newfoundland) A bird, the black-legged kittiwake.
    • 1989, Ed Smith, Not a Word of a Lie, page 118:
      She went flying across Central Newfoundland like a goosed tickleass.
    • 2006, John Gimlette, Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador, page 225:
      More likely, it was the prospect of meat. Curwen was by now craving a juicy roast – 'even seal chop' – and was always loosing off at tickleasses and harps.

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