
| Touchy (Touch"y) (?), a. [For techy, tetchy.] 1. 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. 2. Highly sensitive to touch. Used of a body part. |
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