| 释义 |
touchous, a. dial.|ˈtʌtʃəs|
Also toucheous.
[f. touch n. or v. + -ous.]
Easily offended, sensitive, touchy.
1867P. Kennedy Banks of Boro xxv. 190 By the time I got home, however, I was very cross and touchous. 1933C. Miller Lamb in his Bosom iv. 28 The ill-temper worked in her body like a slow fever... Lonzo called her toucheous. 1960H. Lee To kill Mockingbird viii. 72 He said Atticus was still touchous about us and the Radleys and it wouldn't do to push him away. 1973N.Y. Times 3 June l19/1 [In the Caribbean] an overly sensitive person is ‘touchous’, not touchy. |