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tick⋅lish
[tik-lish] 
lɪʃ
–adjective
| 1. | sensitive to tickling. |
| 2. | requiring careful or delicate handling or action; difficult or risky; dicey: a ticklish situation. |
| 3. | extremely sensitive; touchy: He is ticklish about being interrupted. |
| 4. | unstable or easily upset, as a boat; unsteady. |
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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.
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Language Translation for : ticklish
Spanish:
cosquilloso, que tiene cosquillas,
German:
kitzlig,
Japanese:
くすぐったがる
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