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Ticklish vs Tickling - What's the difference?

ticklish | tickling |

As adjectives the difference between ticklish and tickling

is that ticklish is sensitive or susceptible to being tickled while tickling is that tickles.

As a verb tickling is

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As a noun tickling is

a sensation that tickles.

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

    tickling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That tickles
    • a tickling sensation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation that tickles.
    • ticklings and muscular aches