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TICKLISH
delicate, ticklish, touchy
(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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
ticklish (comparative more ticklish, superlative most ticklish)
Sensitive or susceptible to being tickled.
Touchy, sensitive, or delicate.
Source: Wiktionary
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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