ticklish

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can any man with comfort lodge in a condition so dismally ticklish? Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business. [ 1913 Webster ]

Surely princes had need, in tender matters and ticklish times, to beware what they say. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Tic"klish*ly, adv. -- Tic"klish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]