ticklish

adjective

1. sensitive to tickling.
2. requiring careful or delicate handling or action; difficult or risky; dicey: a ticklish situation.
3. extremely sensitive; touchy: He is ticklish about being interrupted.
4. unstable or easily upset, as a boat; unsteady.

adjective

1. susceptible and sensitive to being tickled
2. delicate or difficulta ticklish situation
3. easily upset or offended

adj.“easily tickled,” 1590s, from tickle + -ish. Literal sense is attested later than the figurative sense (1580s); an earlier word for this was tickly (1520s). Related: Ticklishly; ticklishness.