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Ticklish

Ticklish Meaning & Definition
Ticklish Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ticklish?

[adj] difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers"; "hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ticklish: delicate | difficult | hard

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Ticklish In Webster's Dictionary

\Tic"klish\, a. 1. Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish. --Bacon. 2. Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable. Can any man with comfort lodge in a condition so dismally ticklish? --Barrow. 3. Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business. Surely princes had need, in tender matters and ticklish times, to beware what they say. --Bacon. -- {Tic"klish*ly}, adv. -- {Tic"klish*ness}, n.

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