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单词 ticklish
释义 tick·lish
I. \ˈtik(ə)lish, -lēsh\ adjective
Etymology: tickle (III) + -ish
1. : sensitive to tickling
2.
 a. : easily disturbed emotionally : touchy, oversensitive
  < employed to scare the dickens out of anyone who is ticklish about atomic energy — Newsweek >
 b. : easily overturned or unbalanced : not affording security or support : unsteady, unstable
  < a canoe is the most ticklish of navigable things — Herman Melville >
3. : requiring delicate handling : delicate, nice, critical
 < hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a subject — Publ's Mod. Lang. Association of American >
 < the takeoff is twice as ticklish as the landing — T.H.Fielding >
4. : uncertain, unreliable, changeable
 < ticklish weather >
tick·lish·ly adverb
tick·lish·ness noun -es
II. adverb
: ticklishly
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