Meanings
nountickleass (plural tickleasses)
plural tickleasses · alternative tickleace
- NewfoundlandA bird, the black-legged kittiwake.
She went flying across Central Newfoundland like a goosed tickleass.
1989, Ed Smith, Not a Word of a Lie, page 1181 more example
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.
2006, John Gimlette, Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador, page 225
Origin
Perhaps imitative, as with the broader name kittiwake.
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