a1586 Sir P. Sidney (1593) iii. sig. Gg2v A smiling countenance,..mixt betwene a tickled mirth, and a forced pittie.
1647 H. More ii. App. lxvi His silvered sound would touch our tickled ear.
1880 G. Meredith I. i. 14 They encouraged her with the tickled wonder which bids the bold advance yet farther into bogland.
1896 May 769 No corn or tickled up seed could get them [wild-fowl] up the pipes.