ticklish
English
Etymology
From tickle + -ishCategory:English terms suffixed with -ish#TICKLISH.
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Adjective
ticklish (comparative more ticklish, superlative most ticklish)Category:English lemmas#TICKLISHCategory:English adjectives#TICKLISHCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TICKLISHCategory:Pages with entries#TICKLISHCategory:Pages with 1 entry#TICKLISH
- Sensitive or susceptible to being tickled.
- She is ticklish only on her tummy and the bottoms of her feet.Category:English terms with usage examples#TICKLISH
- Touchy, sensitive, or delicate.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 5, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
- That was the funeral oration of one friend and client; and he could not help a certain apprehension lest the good name of another should be sucked down in the eddy of the scandal. It was, at least, a ticklish decision that he had to make; and self-reliant as he was by habit, he began to cherish a longing for advice.Category:English terms with quotations#TICKLISH
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 162:
- Opening round three, Enderby moved the ticklish issue of whether to advise the Hong Kong government of the intelligence regarding Ko.Category:English terms with quotations#TICKLISH
- 2014 September 15, Martin Gayford, “There's more to Ming than a vase [print version: 16 August 2014, pp. R6–R7]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
- The fact that the Yongle emperor was therefore a usurper, regicide and nepoticide (nephew-killer) made compiling the Veritable Record – or official history – of his reign a most dangerous scholarly post. The official given this ticklish task managed to survive several drafts, finally producing one that pleased his master as it omitted the dead nephew's reign altogether.Category:English terms with quotations#TICKLISH
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Translations
sensitive or susceptible to tickling
delicate
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