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tickle-ace Newfoundland and Labrador.|ˈtɪk(ə)leɪs|
Also ticklace, tickle-ass, tickle-else, etc.
[perh. imit. of the bird's cry.]
The kittiwake.
1819in H. J. Paddock Languages in Newfoundland & Labrador (1977) 16 Titlass-Gotheyet. 1889J. P. Howley in G. M. Story et al. Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 565/2 They were chiefly Murres, Turres, Pigeons and Tick⁓laces. 1909P. W. Browne Where Fishers Go 207 The Kittiwake..is known to fishermen as ‘Tickelelse (‘Ticklers’). 1932J. Barbour Forty-Eight Days Adrift 53 The only thing alive, to be seen, was a tickalass, and we tried with poles to kill it, to eat. 1951Peters & Burleigh Birds of Newfoundland 235 Atlantic Black⁓legged Kittiwake... Local names: Tickle-lace, Tickle⁓ace, Tickle-ass. 1966A. R. Scammell My Newfoundland 36 Jim Parsons was out shooting tickle-aces yesterday. 1974F. Mowat Boat who wouldn't Float xviii. 219 She [sc. a boat] lay lightly on the harbour looking as pretty as a tickle-ass. 1975T. Russell Chron. Uncle Mose 23 There'd been a few ticklaces around that morning.., and being as how I liked ticklace soup as well as the next man, I wished I'd had my breech-loader and a few cartridges. |