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- adjective
touchy ; overlysensitive
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Examples
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You ain't got no call to be so touchous bout yo 'girl, but you sho said a mouthful, Sister Blunt.
De Turkey and De Law A Comedy in Three Acts Zora Neale Hurston
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Gwan back and hunt turkeys -- you make out you so touchous nobody can't tell you yo 'eye is black thout you got to run git de law.
De Turkey and De Law A Comedy in Three Acts Zora Neale Hurston
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Well if you so touchous you got to cry every time anybody look at you, you can't play wid us.
De Turkey and De Law A Comedy in Three Acts Zora Neale Hurston
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The soldiers thus roused, as if from their long sleep since Fredericksburg, feel in a touchous mood.
History of Kershaw's Brigade D. Augustus Dickert
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It is right that our people are now and always have been touchous on this subject.
The Life and Speeches of Charles Brantley Aycock Robert Digges Wimberly 1912
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He were as touchous as a sick barn, if aught went wrang wi 'him.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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Dat boy he been doin 'somepin to mek him touchous,' less'n he nev 'tuk out dat-a-way, no, suh! "
The Price Francis Lynde 1893
fbharjo commented on the word touchous
used in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
October 22, 2010