a. [f. TICKLE v. + -SOME.]

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  1.  That tends to tickle; difficult, critical, delicate, precarious, ticklish. Now dial.

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1585.  Parsons, Chr. Exerc., II. v. 343. Miserable is that man which placeth the ankor of his eternall wealth … vpon so ticklesome a point as this is. Ibid. (1604), 3rd Pt. Three Convers. Eng., 314. Hauinge moued such a matter … in so dangerous and ticklesome a tyme.

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1898.  MacManus, Bend of Road, 200. Yis, marriage is a ticklesome subject.

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  2.  ? Easily tickled; tickly; ticklish; suitable or fitted for tickling or laughter.

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1844.  Hood, Lett. to May Elliot, April, Wks. 1873, X. 404. I mean to come in my most ticklesome waistcoat, and to laugh till I grow fat.

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1898.  MacDonagh, Irish Life & Char., xvii. 313. The man’s so ticklesome that sorra a tailor in the counthry can … take his measure.

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