ticklish : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ticklish	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for ticklish
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ticklish adj difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject" Synonym(s): delicate, ticklish, touchy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ticklish \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"klishly}, adv. -- {Tic"klishness}, n.