单词 | ticklishness |
释义 | ticklishnessn. The quality of being ticklish: see the adjective. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > sensation of being tickled > [noun] > sensitivity to tickling ticklishness1583 the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or delicacy kittleness1578 ticklishness1583 trickleness?1605 niceness1608 nicety1707 delicacy1753 subtlety1815 tricksiness1888 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > insecurity > precariousness ticklenessc1390 kittleness1578 ticklishness1583 touchiness1649 staggeringa1661 precariousness1666 criticalness1794 precarity1910 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie lxxxii. 503 Besides yt ticklishnes which we haue alreadie of nature it pricketh vs forewarde to say why should not such a thing be good. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Gattorigole, ticklings, ticklishness. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice v. 22 His vncomelinesse onely proceedes from ticklishnesse or delight, which hee takes in the friction. a1631 J. Donne Let. in T. Matthew Coll. Lett. (1659) 355 You know the ticklishnesse of London-Pulpits. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. v. 406 Such was the ticklishness of the King's condition, that..it was not thought Counsellable at that time..to commit them to Prison. 1739 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen 200 We know by the ticklishness of the soles [of the feet] what a multitude of fine nervous fibres terminate in them. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ (1849) vi. 389 The difficulty and ticklishness of the times in which we live. 1905 Longman's Mag. Feb. 360 The mare..was in high spirits, which demonstrated themselves by an affectation of extreme ticklishness, when a fly alighted on her shining flank. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1583 |
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