ticklesome

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adjective

Tickly, sensitive or susceptible to being tickled.

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Meanings

adjectiveticklesome (comparative more ticklesome, superlative most 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

Origin

From tickle + -some.

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APA

ticklesome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ticklesome

MLA

“ticklesome.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ticklesome. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ticklesome,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ticklesome.

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