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ticklish Adjective 1. sensitive to being tickled 2. delicate or difficult: a ticklish problem
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Translationsticklish [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 |
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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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