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单词 to tickle the minikin
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to tickle the minikin
b. to tickle the minikin: to play the lute or viol. Obsolete.Frequently used humorously by early 17th cent. dramatists with allusive suggestion of minikin n.1 1.In quot. 1601 apparently used of a fiddle.
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to tickle the minikin1601
1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. i. sig. A3 When I was a yong man and could tickle the Minikin,..I had the best stroke, the sweetest touch, but now..I am falne from the Fidle and betooke me to thee [sc. the Pipe].
1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. H1v Perge mentiri. Tickle the next Minkin.
1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) i. sig. B3 v Of which consort you two are grounds, one touches the Base, and the other tickles the minikin.
c1635 H. Glapthorne Lady Mother (1959) ii. i. 28 Thou dost tikle the minikin as nimbly.
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