touchy

3 definitions found

touchy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Touchy \Touch"y\, a. [For techy, tetchy.]
     Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
     [Colloq.]
     [1913 Webster]
  
           It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy
           about personal attacks.                  --Saintsbury.
     [1913 Webster]

touchy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  touchy
      adj 1: quick to take offense [syn: huffy, thin-skinned,
             feisty, touchy]
      2: difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate
         negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit
         on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject" [syn:
         delicate, ticklish, touchy]

touchy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  104 Moby Thesaurus words for "touchy":
     agitable, allergic, anaphylactic, argumentative, bad-tempered,
     bearish, cantankerous, captious, chancy, choleric, close,
     contentious, crabbed, crabby, cranky, critical, cross, crusty,
     dangerous, delicate, dicey, disputatious, dyspeptic, edgy,
     emotional, emotionally unstable, empathetic, empathic, eruptive,
     excitable, explosive, frightening, goosy, grouchy, hair-raising,
     hairbreadth, hairy, harmful, hazardous, high-mettled,
     high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hot-tempered,
     hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, inflammable, irascible,
     irritable, itchy, mettlesome, miffy, nerve-racking, nervous,
     on slippery ground, on thin ice, overrefined, oversensible,
     oversensitive, overtender, parlous, passible, peevish, perturbable,
     pettish, petulant, precarious, prickly, querulous, quick-tempered,
     ratty, refined, responsive, risky, sensitive, short-tempered,
     skittish, slippery, slippy, snappish, snarling, splenetic,
     startlish, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, temperamental,
     tender, tense, terrifying, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish,
     touch-and-go, tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, unsafe, unsure,
     volatile, volcanic, waspish