touchous

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adjective

Touchy; overly sensitive.

“Don't be so touchous about everything!”

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Meanings

adjectivetouchous (comparative more touchous, superlative most touchous)

comparative more touchous · superlative most touchous

  1. SouthernUSrareregionalTouchy; overly sensitive.

    Don't be so touchous about everything!

    1 more example

    He said Atticus was still touchous about us and the Radleys and it wouldn't do to push him any.

    1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

Origin

From touch + -ous.

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Chicago

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