An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

2. Attended with difficulty, in a literal sense; as, a kittle gait, a road that one is apt to lose, or in which one is in danger of falling, S.
3. Not easily managed; as, a kittle horse, S.

Teut. ketelig peerd, id.

Mellvill's MS.
4. Not easily articulated; as kittle words. S.
Hogg.
5. Variable, applied to the weather, S.
6. Nice, intricate, in a moral sense; as, a kittle question.
Wodrow.
7. Squeamish, applied to the conscience, S.
Spotswood.
8. Vexatious, implying the idea of danger, S.
Beattie.
9. Likely, apt.
Burns.

Kittlie, adj. Itchy, S. B.

Kittle-the-cout, Kittlie-cout, a game among young people, in which a handkerchief being hid, one is employed to seek it, S.; q. puzzle the colt.

KIVE, s. "Mashing-fat."
Kelly.

KLIPPERT, s. A shorn sheep, S.
Journ. Lond.

KNAB, s.
1. One who possesses a small independence; a little laird, S.
Forbes.
2. A leader or general.
Poems Buchan Dial.

Germ. knab, puer nobilis; Isl. knap-ar. vulgus nobilium.

Knabby, Knabbish, adj. Possessing independence in a middling line, S.