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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.
 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*klish*ly, adv. -- Tic*klish*ness, n.