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ticklish |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ticklish \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ticklish adj : difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers"; "hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter" [syn: {delicate}]
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