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ticklish

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tick·lish  (tklsh)
adj.
1. Sensitive to tickling.
2. Easily offended or upset; touchy.
3. Requiring skillful or tactful handling; delicate: a ticklish matter.

ticklish·ly adv.
ticklish·ness n.

ticklish
Adjective
1. sensitive to being tickled
2. delicate or difficult: a ticklish problem
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.ticklish - difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"
difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
Translations

ticklish [ˈtɪklɪʃ] adj (= which tickles) [blanket] → que pica: [cough] → irritante;
to be ticklish → tener cosquillas
ticklish [ˈtɪklɪʃ] tickle adj [person] → chatouilleux/euse (= which tickles) [blanket] → qui chatouille: [cough] → qui irrite; [problem] → épineux/euse
ticklish [ˈtɪklɪʃ] tickle adj [person, situation] → kitzlig
ticklish [ˈtɪklɪʃ] adjche soffre il solletico (= which tickles) [blanket, cough] → che provoca prurito

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A large whale's case generally yields about five hundred gallons of sperm, though from unavoidable circumstances, considerable of it is spilled, leaks, and dribbles away, or is otherwise irrevocably lost in the ticklish business of securing what you can.
I grew very fond of him, he was so gentle and kind; he seemed to know just how a horse feels, and when he cleaned me he knew the tender places and the ticklish places; when he brushed my head he went as carefully over my eyes as if they were his own, and never stirred up any ill-temper.
Notwithstanding the success which has attended the revisions of our established forms of government, and which does so much honor to the virtue and intelligence of the people of America, it must be confessed that the experiments are of too ticklish a nature to be unnecessarily multiplied.
 
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