tickleass
English edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps imitative, as with the broader name kittiwake.[1]
Noun edit
tickleass (plural tickleasses)
- (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.