Our Ricky-ticky is a bad hand at serving two masters," but as to which was God and which Mammon in this connection he modestly reserved his opinion.
It is called Ticky, Ticky Touchwood by Brogden (Lincolnshire Provincial Words), and Tiggy in Addy's Sheffield Glossary.
Now come and find old Don Ricky-ticky and try to look rich.
Don Ricky-ticky must now stop the bullfighting--and you know how they love it.
Beany he had the last hand on the bat and he cood jest get hold of it a little and when he swung it round his head it sliped and hit Ticky on his head, and he piched into Beany and jest as they was fiting good the bell rang.
Beany and Ticky was chewsing and the way they did it was this.
And then, off to the station on my tootsies and take train back to the land of ticky (threepenny) beer and Y.
Fat Mary's hostility to the Kafir and the aloe plumes and the ticky was plainly the fruit of jealousy.
Oh Tavy, Tavy, Ricky Ticky Tavy, heaven help the woman who marries you!
Facsimile of poster used to show the difference between cattle of similar breeding raised on a tick-free farm in one case and on a ticky farm in the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ticky" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
