Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a prostitute, a promiscuous woman; also as adj., promiscuous [tail n. (3)].

c.1430		Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 31: Canst thou no better come to holynesse, Than lese thiself al for a tikel-taylle?
1655		Mercurius Fumigosus 40 28 Feb.–7 Mar. 317: Who ever hath taken up this Jewel of an unknown value, let them bring word of it to Mistris Abigail Tickle-Tayle at the sign of the Flying Monkey in Long Acre.
1675		Fumblers-Hall 14: Master: Call in Nan Tickle-tail and Peter Bad-cock.
1707		N. Ward London Terraefilius III 31: That ingrateful She-Devil of a little Tickle-Tail Concubine.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

2. a schoolmaster [tail n. (1)].

1699		N. Ward London Spy VI 137: Why, if you must know, Mr. Tickle-Tail, says he, taking me, as I believe, being in Black, for some Country Pedagogue, I was committed here by Justice Clodpate.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.

3. a cane [tail n. (1)].

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

4. the penis [tail n. (2)].

1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.