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adjective

Ticklish adj.

Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish.

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?"

Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business. "Surely princes had need, in tender matters and ticklish times, to beware what they say."

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Etymology of 'Ticklish'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ticklish" Quotes from Famous Books

... were urged into the ticklish crossing. The line of wagons was almost all at the farther side when all at once the rear ...

— The Covered Wagon • Emerson Hough

... about them," said the young engineer, laughing, as he took off his wideawake and ran his fingers through his curly brown hair. "I declare my scalp feels quite ticklish already." ...

— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson

... able to, at that," said Stone. "You're pretty slight. But it would be a ticklish proposition without any rope from above. Well, ...

— The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border • Gerald Breckenridge

... the faces of the swashbucklers were almost funereal in their solemnity. Passepoil, relying upon his Norman cunning, took it upon himself to explain a ticklish situation. "It is lucky we are here to help you," he ...

— The Duke's Motto - A Melodrama • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... she said, "I wish you people would have more to do," or on another occasion, when she had resisted being brought into the examining room, she said, "I will get out of here if I break a leg." But once when the nurse accidentally tickled her, she said, "Since I am ticklish, I must be jealous—I should worry." She also answered very few questions and such responses as she made were chiefly expressions of resentment. Thus, when one kept urging her, she finally would say "stop," or after much urging "I am going to hurt you pretty quick." Sometimes she said "Go away," ...

— Benign Stupors - A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type • August Hoch

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