Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Kittle

Kittle (kit"t'l) , intransitive verb

[Compare Kit a kitten.]

(Zoology) To bring forth young, as a cat; to kitten; to litter. [Provincial English & Scottish]

Kittle , transitive verb

[Compare Anglo-Saxon citelian; akin to Dutch kittelen, German kitzeln, Icelandic kitla, Swedish kittla, kittsla, Danish kildre. Compare Tickle.]

To tickle. [Provincial English & Scottish] — Halliwell

Kittle , adjective

Ticklish; not easily managed; troublesome; difficult; variable. [Provincial English & Scottish] — Halliwell