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ticklesome

ticklesome adjective: tickly, sensitive or susceptible to being tickled.

Adjective

ticklesome (comparative more ticklesome, superlative most ticklesome)

  1. Tickly, sensitive or susceptible to being tickled.
    • But I shouldn't like to have him walk on me. He'd be so—so tickelsome.1920, Joseph Crosby Lincoln, "Shavings": a novel, New York & London: D. Appleton and company, page 376

Forms of ticklesome

comparativemore ticklesome
superlativemost ticklesome

Origin of ticklesome

From tickle + -some.

Questions about ticklesome

What does ticklesome mean?
Ticklesome means tickly, sensitive or susceptible to being tickled.
What part of speech is ticklesome?
Ticklesome is an adjective.

Words near ticklesome in the dictionary

  1. tickles the dragon's tail
  2. tickles the ear
  3. tickles the ivories
  4. tickles the ivory
  5. tickles the wire
  6. ticklesome
  7. ticklesomeness
  8. tickless
  9. ticklest
  10. tickleth
  11. ticklier

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