About The Word Ticklish
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Ticklish
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Ticklish Definition And Meaning |
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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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Ticklish: See Also | 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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