tickle-footed

adj

tickle-footed

adj

Etymology From the obsolete adjective tickle (“unsteady”).

1

Obsolete, Poetic having unsure or slippery footing, or inconstant.

You were ever tickle-footed, and would not truss round.c. 1613–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Scornful Lady, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
tickle-footed wanton1824, Gilmour, Or The Last Lockinge:

2 more examples

But what goes on Between a flower And tickle-footed Honey bee Is still a mystery1987, Margaret Paige, Ride My River with Me:
When the thunder stalks the sky, When tickle-footed walks the fly, When shirt is wet and throat is dry, Look, my darling, thats July.a. 1942, Ogden Nash, Summer Serenade:

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