'Ticklish' definitions:

Definition of 'ticklish'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject" [syn: delicate, ticklish, touchy]

Definition of 'Ticklish'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable. [1913 Webster]
  • Can any man with comfort lodge in a condition so dismally ticklish? --Barrow. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business. [1913 Webster]
  • Surely princes had need, in tender matters and ticklish times, to beware what they say. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] -- {Tic"klish*ly}, adv. -- {Tic"klish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]

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