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English Dictionary: touchy	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for touchy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
touchy adj quick to take offense [syn: huffy, thin-skinned, feisty, touchy] difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject" Synonym(s): delicate, ticklish, touchy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Touchy \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.