Reverse Dictionary: TOUCHY

ADJECTIVES
► ALL HAIR BY THE NOSE ► ALL HAIR IN THE NOSE angry, quarrelsome, touchy → 1924 Amer. dial.
► CAPPIT crabbed, ill-humoured, quarrelsome, touchy → 1742 Sc.
► CAWKEY touchy: said of a man → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DICEY touchy; chancy; touch and go → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► FEISTY irascible, argumentative, touchy, angry, low, mean, cross; pert, impertinent, impudent, self-important; frisky, mettlesome → 1890 Amer. dial.
► FLASHY touchy, irascible, quick-tempered, angry → 1941 Amer. dial.
► FRATCH quarrelsome, easily offended, touchy → 1882 Eng. dial.
► FUFFY short-tempered, touchy, huffy → 1858 Sc.
► GOOSEY ► GOOSY nervous, jumpy, touchy, ticklish → 1906 Amer. dial.
► HAIR-SORE touchy, ready to take offense → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HATTLE-TEMPERED quick-tempered, touchy → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HECKLE-TEMPERED short-tempered, hasty, touchy → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HUFFY arrogant, choleric; also, ready to take offense, touchy, pettish → 1680
► KITTLE difficult to deal with, esp. because touchy, obstinate, or intractable; fickle, capricious → Sc.
► MIFFY apt to take offense, touchy, capricious → 1750 Eng. dial.
► NAGGIE cross-tempered, touchy, ill-natured → 1838 Sc.
► NAGGLY touchy, fretful, sarcastic, quarrelsome; ill-natured → 1887 Sc.
► NATTLE quick to take offense; touchy; irritable; cross → 1868 Eng. dial.
► ON OFFSIDES ► ON THE OFFSIDE of a person: odd, peculiar; irritable, touchy, easily offended → 1969 Amer. dial.
► OUCHY irritable, short-tempered, touchy, easily offended, sensitive, intolerant → 1966 Amer. dial.
► PRICKLY of a person: quick to react angrily, ready to take offense; touchy, oversensitive → 1853
► PRODDY irritable, bad-tempered, touchy, easily angered, aggressive → 1932 Amer. dial.
► SAFT-SKINNED easily offended, touchy, thin-skinned → 1882 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► SHORT-LIMBERED touchy → L19
► SHORT-MINDED quick-tempered, touchy → 1986 Amer. dial.
► SHORT-PATIENCED quick-tempered; excitable; touchy; irritable; easily offended; impatient → 1922 Amer. dial.
► SHORT-PATIENT quick-tempered; excitable; touchy; irritable; easily offended; impatient → 1922 Amer. dial.
► SNARKY irritable; touchy; sarcastic, snide → 1906 Amer. sl.
► SNUFFY annoyed, displeased, ready to take offense, touchy; sulky, angry, vexed, fault-finding; unpleasant, disagreeable → 1678
► SPLEENY touchy, morose → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► TATCHY touchy, irritable, peevish, fretful, cross → 1746 Eng. dial.
► TECHEOUS ► TECHOUS ► TETCHOUS touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered → 1842 Amer. dial.
► TECHY touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered, peevish, easily offended, sensitive → 1815 Amer. dial.
► TETCHEROUS touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered → 1976 Amer. dial.
► TETCHIFIED touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered → 1944 Amer. dial.
► TETCHIOUS touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered → 1913 Amer. dial.
► TETCHOUS AS A SKINNED EEL touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered → 1842 Amer. dial.
► TETCHSOME touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered → 1966 Amer. dial.
► TETCHY touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered, peevish, easily offended → 1592
► THIN-SKINNED sensitive to criticism, reproach, or rebuff; easily offended; touchy 
► TICKLE uncertain in temper; touchy, easily offended → 1874 Eng. dial.
► TICKLISH easily upset in temper; apt to be offended, sensitive, touchy → 1581
► TICKY finicky, fussy, too particular; touchy, easily offended → 1894 Amer. dial.
► TOUCHOUS tetchy, touchy, apt to take offense; irritable, irascible, peevish; testy, easily angered, ill-tempered → 1880 Amer. dial.
► TUTTY irritable, ill-tempered, testy, touchy, peevish, easily offended → 1809 Eng. dial.
► TWITTY touchy, irritable, short-tempered; censorious, carping → a1825 orig. Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► PRICKLES a tendency to react argumentatively; defensiveness, prickliness, touchiness → 1956 Brit.

NOUNS – PERSON
► FEIST ► FICE ► FISTE ► FYST a person or animal that is irascible, touchy, or bad-tempered → 1915 Amer. dial., derogatory
► FEISTY BRITCHES ► FICETY BREECHES a touchy or quarrelsome person → 1906 Amer. dial.

VERBS
► HAVE A BUG UP ONE’S ASS to be irascible and touchy → 1954 Amer. dial.
► HAVE A HAIR CROSSED to be touchy, sensitive, or defensive → 1968 Amer. dial.
► RUN FOR THE HOSES to talk your way out of a touchy situation → 1960s Amer. sl.