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Puzzling vs Ticklish - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between puzzling and ticklish

is that puzzling is difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing while ticklish is sensitive or susceptible to being tickled.

As a verb puzzling

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun puzzling

is time spent pondering something confusing.

puzzling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.
  • *
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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Time spent pondering something confusing.

    • ticklish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sensitive or susceptible to being tickled.
    • She is ticklish only on her tummy and the bottoms of her feet.
  • Touchy, sensitive, or delicate.
  • * 1977 , , The Honourable Schoolboy , Folio Society 2010, page 162:
    • Opening round three, Enderby moved the ticklish issue of whether to advise the Hong Kong government of the intelligence regarding Ko.
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    • Derived terms

    * ticklishness