touchy
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touchy
- /ˈtʌt͡ʃi/
Rhymes with -ʌtʃi
Where it comes from
A variant of earlier tetchy (“cranky, easily annoyed, difficult to handle”), under influence from some senses of touch (“affect, disturb”) and simulating touch + -y.
adjective touchier · touchiest
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Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable; requiring caution or tactfulness.
It is an extremely touchy situation, with everybody's patience wearing thin.
Similar: tetchy, delicate, touch and go, scabrous
- Easily offended, oversensitive. He can be very touchy when you talk about his estranged son, so be as tactful as possible.
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Inclined to engage in physical touch.
Similar: handsy, touchy-feely · Opposite: untouchy
verb
- To touch. No need to mention the magical tree of knowledge which the idiot deity placed in front of its play beings thusly saying, "No. No touchy. (guffaw) No. Bad play beings. (snicker) No. You will suffer the ultimate punishment. No! (bwahahahaha). Don't!", wherein a talking snake convinces the female to ea
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: thin-skinned, feisty, ill-natured, huffy, sensitive, tricky, difficult, jumpy, sore, delicate, superficial, susceptible, touch, awkward, capable, responsive
Translations
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adj (situation) sensitive or volatile
| Español | touchy |
|---|---|
| Français | irascible |
| Deutsch | heikel, empfindlich |
| Русский | чувстви́тельный čuvstvítelʹnyj |
adj (person) easily offended; oversensitive
| Español | quisquilloso, picajoso, picajón, touchy, picón |
|---|---|
| Français | susceptible |
| Deutsch | gereizt, reizbar, übelnehmerisch, empfindlich, zickig |
| Italiano | permaloso, facilmente irritabile, suscettibile, irascibile |
| Русский | оби́дчивый obídčivyj, раздражи́тельный razdražítelʹnyj |
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