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Definition of Touchy
1. Adjective. Quick to take offense.
Similar to: Sensitive
Derivative terms: Huffiness, Touchiness
2. Adjective. Difficult to handle; requiring great tact. "A touchy subject"
Definition of Touchy
1. a. Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
Definition of Touchy
1. Adjective. (context: of a situation) Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable; requiring caution or tactfulness. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a person) Easily offended; oversensitive; ticklish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Touchy
1. overly sensitive [adj TOUCHIER, TOUCHIEST] : TOUCHILY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Touchy
Literary usage of Touchy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"muling ; " bat bow touchy roa mast be. ' Don't yoa know that women пате the
privi-, lege of unpunctuality ? don't yoa know it u one of the few prerogatives ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"touchy. Apt to take offence on slight provocation. AV touches pat, "Jyo/i me
tangen" one not to be touched. Tour. The Grund Tour. ..."
3. A New Malagasy-English Dictionary by James Richardson (1885)
"fig. easily offended, touchy. KIA'N-TE'NY, ». [TENY, a word.] A In the morning.
... To be blamed, to be found fault with ; hasty, touchy. KI'ANII'ANY, ». ..."
4. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"... used to such generous dealing in touchy matters among his counsellors.
His lord- I have here touched upon some passages only chief corf which might tend ..."
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