Tickle-footed

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    having unsure or slippery footing, or inconstant. obsolete, poetic

    "You were ever tickle-footed, and would not truss round."

Example

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"You were ever tickle-footed, and would not truss round."

Etymology

From the obsolete adjective tickle (“unsteady”).

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