| Pronunciation: | | 'tuchee
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| Matching Terms: | | touch, touch base, touch down, touch football, touch modality, touch off, touch on, touch perception, touch screen, touch sensation, touch system, touch typing, touch up, touchable, touch-and-go, touchback, touch-box, touchdown, touched, touched(p), toucher, touchhole, touchily, touchiness, touching, touchingly, touchline, touch-me-not, touch-needle, touchpad, touch-paper, touchstone, touch-type, touch-typist, touchwood, touchy-feely
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- [adj] irritable and looking for trouble; "too touchy to make judicious decisions"
- [adj] quick to take offense
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| | Synonyms: | | feisty, huffy, ill-natured, sensitive, thin-skinned |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Touch"y\, a. [For techy, tetchy.]
Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
[Colloq.]
It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy
about personal attacks. --Saintsbury.
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