Touchy
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Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.[Colloq.]It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personalattacks. Saintsbury.
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A person who:
a)is sensitive
b)takes things personally/literally.
c)a person who can't take a joke -
touch•y/ˈtəCHē/Adjective
(of a person) Someone who is oversensitive or abnormally irritable: “Rusty busted an old man’s hip after he referred to his phone as a toy”.
(of an issue or situation) Must be handled with kid gloves; delicate topic: “Rusty’s phone company placed a data limit on his account”. -
When a person [gets] [curious] of something and they [touch it].
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Easily upset or offended; oversensitive.
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