Touchy
['tʌtʃɪ] or ['tʌtʃi]
Definition
(a.) Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Peevish, snappish, waspish, cross, testy, irritable, fretful, splenetic, irascible, petulant, choleric, peppery, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, like tinder, like touch-wood.
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Examples
- I did not do so to wound or to vex; interrupted I, but you are too touchy and susceptible. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I had done with my poor man's touchy pride--I had done with all my little artist vanities. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Lor, now, how touchy we is,--we white niggers! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Dick assured him he was not touchy. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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