touchy
adjective
[ ˈtʌtʃi ]
• easily upset or offended; oversensitive.
• "she's a little touchy about her age"
Similar:
sensitive,
oversensitive,
hypersensitive,
easily offended,
thin-skinned,
irritable,
tetchy,
testy,
crotchety,
irascible,
peevish,
querulous,
bad-tempered,
short-tempered,
hot-tempered,
quick-tempered,
temperamental,
snappy,
captious,
crabbed,
prickly,
edgy,
cross,
surly,
crusty,
curmudgeonly,
cantankerous,
petulant,
waspish,
pettish,
quarrelsome,
splenetic,
grumpy,
fractious,
highly strung,
tense,
grouchy,
cranky,
ratty,
Origin:
early 17th century: perhaps an alteration of tetchy, influenced by touch.
