Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who has a tickle or unsteady brain, as one intoxicated.

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Examples

  • "Were it not a quaint conceit, a merry tickle-brain of Fate," he asked of the leaping flames, after a still longer pause, "that this mountain of malmsey were once a delicate stripling with apple cheeks and a clean breath, smelling of civet, and as mad for love, I warrant you, as any

    The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918

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