TICKLISH • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Ticklish

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/tˈɪkəlɪʃ/ Listen

adjective

Ticklish adj.

Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish.

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?"

Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business. "Surely princes had need, in tender matters and ticklish times, to beware what they say."

See images of 'Ticklish'

Etymology of 'Ticklish'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Ticklish" Quotes from Famous Books

... me as though this is going to be a rather ticklish affair," Droom resumed after the boy had closed the outer door behind him. Bansemer's mind was on Mrs. Cable's note; a queer smile ...

— Jane Cable • George Barr McCutcheon

... regulations, but it is hardly likely that the bishop of Grenoble would so far stretch a point as to ordain a lad much below the canonical age, even if he were of a great house and great piety. Anyhow it is hardly worth while for the general reader to waste time over these ticklish points. It is enough to say that Hugh was ordained young, that he looked pink and white over his white stole and broidered tunic, and that he soon preached vigorously, warmly, and movingly to the crowd and to ...

— Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln - A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England • Charles L. Marson

... Assembly has met again and the action taken by an overwhelming majority of the Assembly fills us with gratitude to God. The ticklish part of the report on co-operation was that, of course, on colored evangelization. Here the report first stated what had been the policy of the Southern Church for a separate Negro denomination, and then gave that of the ...

— The American Missionary, Vol. 43, No. 7, July, 1889 • Various

... got rid of the rest of his men on this trip, excepting the gunner and carpenter, and these lingered with him as a kind of body-guard pending the ticklish business of releasing the imprisoned pirates and forsaking them to their own devices. The jolly-boat was laden to the gunwales and Jack Cockrell held back, saying to ...

— Blackbeard: Buccaneer • Ralph D. Paine

... for Mr. Marsh, who was now more at her beck and call than ever, and told him she had a ticklish letter to write. "I can talk with the best," said she, "but the moment I sit down and take up a pen something cold runs up my shoulder, and then down my backbone, and I'm palsied; now you are always writing, and can't say 'Bo' to ...

— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade

More quotes...