tickle-footed

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English

Etymology

From the obsolete adjective tickle (“unsteady”).

Adjective

tickle-footed

(obsolete or poetic) having unsure or slippery footing, or inconstant.
- c. 1613–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Scornful Lady, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  You were ever tickle-footed, and would not truss round.
- 1824, Gilmour, Or The Last Lockinge:
  tickle-footed wanton
- 1987, Margaret Paige, Ride My River with Me:
  But what goes on
  Between a flower
  And tickle-footed
  Honey bee Is still a mystery
- a. 1942, Ogden Nash, Summer Serenade:
  When the thunder stalks the sky,
  When tickle-footed walks the fly,
  When shirt is wet and throat is dry,
  Look, my darling, thats July.

References

“tickle-footed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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