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1Touchy! — «Touchy! (1988)» Sencillo de a ha del álbum Stay On These Roads Formato 7 , 12 y CD Duración (4:31) (Duración de la Canción) Discográfica Warner Bros. Records …
2touchy — [tuch′ē] adj. touchier, touchiest [ TOUCH + Y2: also ( TOUCHY sense 1) altered < TECHY] 1. easily offended; oversensitive; irritable 2. sensitive to touch; easily irritated, as a part of the body …
3Touchy — 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] …
4touchy — index fractious, perverse, petulant, querulous, resentful, sensitive (easily affected) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C …
5touchy — (adj.) too sensitive, c.1600, perhaps an alteration of TETCHY (Cf. tetchy) (q.v.) influenced by TOUCH (Cf. touch) (v.). Related: Touchiness …
6touchy — *irascible, choleric, splenetic, testy, cranky, cross Analogous words: *irritable, fractious, snappish, waspish, peevish: captious, caviling, faultfinding, carping (see CRITICAL) Antonyms: imperturbable …
7touchy — [adj] easily offended bad tempered, bundle of nerves*, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabbed, cranky, cross, delicate, dicey*, grouchy, grumpy, hazardous, hypersensitive, irascible, irritable, jumpy*, mean, ornery*, oversensitive, peevish,… …
8touchy — ► ADJECTIVE (touchier, touchiest) 1) quick to take offence; oversensitive. 2) (of a situation or issue) requiring careful handling. DERIVATIVES touchily adverb touchiness noun. ORIGIN perhaps an alteration of …
9Touchy! — Infobox Single Name = Touchy! Artist = a ha from Album = Stay on These Roads B side = Hurry Home Released = 15th August 1988 Format = 7 , 12 , Cd Recorded = 1988 Genre = Synthpop New Wave Alternative rock Length = 4:33 Label = Writer = Producer …
10touchy — [[t]tʌ̱tʃi[/t]] touchier, touchiest 1) ADJ GRADED: oft ADJ about n (disapproval) If you describe someone as touchy, you mean that they are easily upset, offended, or irritated. She is very touchy about her past... Don t be so touchy. Syn:… …
