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Quotation dates: 1653-1659
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Ti(c)klish, adj. [e.m.E. tikelish (1581), ticklish (1591).] = Tic(k)le adj. — 1653 Vindication of the Late Generall Assembly 234.
The king was indeed in a right ticklish condition 1659 Johnston Diary III 114.
Major Leister had objected … against me as a spye … and so unfitt in this tiklish tyme to be on their Counsel
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