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ticklishness

/tik-lish/US // ˈtɪk lɪʃ //UK // (ˈtɪklɪʃ) //

痒感,痒痒的感觉,痒痒,痒痒症

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : sensitive to tickling.
    • : requiring careful or delicate handling or action; difficult or risky; dicey: a ticklish situation.
    • : extremely sensitive; touchy: He is ticklish about being interrupted.
    • : unstable or easily upset, as a boat; unsteady.

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Examples

  • But as a Senate candidate, especially one looking to woo Tea Party types, her situation is somewhat more ticklish.

  • Here am I, trying to get you out of a mighty ticklish situation, and you go and get funny.

  • He knows a lot of useful stuff, and these are ticklish times.'

  • He settled back on his haunches and gave a little thought to the matter, and understood that he had a ticklish job ahead of him.

  • It was a ticklish business recovering the sledge which hung suspended in the crevasse.

  • It164 would have been a ticklish business to make one's way along the deck then, he thought.