vbl. sb. Sc. and north. dial. [OE. kitelung: see KITTLE v.1] The action of KITTLE v.1; tickling (lit. and fig.).

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c. 1000.  Ags. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 278/6. Titillatio, kitelung.

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter ii. 4. Dissayued thurght quayntis of þe deuel and kitlynge of þaire flesch [MS. Coll. Eton. 10, lf. 4, kitellynge of thaire flesshe].

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 204/2. A kytyllynge, titillacio.

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1822.  Hogg, Perils of Man, II. vi. 234. A kind o’ kittling, a sort o’ prinkling in my blood like.

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1830.  Galt, Lawrie T., VII. vi. (1849), 330. Ye’ll never laugh or smile At the kittling o’ your knee.

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