单词 | touchily |
释义 | touchilyadv.ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adverb] > pertly or brashly pertly?1529 saucily1539 touchily1653 pert1795 puppyishly1817 tossily1851 brashly1865 pertlike1879 1653 E. Waterhouse Humble Apol. Learning 251 The King answered only, Say what I can do acceptable to the Athenians; the Varlet Democrates replyed touchily, Nothing better then to hang thy selfe. 2. With extreme sensitivity; esp. in a touchy or testy manner; irritably, tetchily. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > [adverb] impatiently1490 tetchily1647 touchily1658 testily1755 spleenishly1775 splenetically1779 edgily1837 irritably1855 shirtily1879 teethily1879 spleenfully1882 soreheadedly1883 teasily1928 rattily1938 snarkily1967 1658 J. Votier Vox Dei & Hominis ii. iii. 156 As Ahab said of Micaiah touchilie, so may we say of this doctrine trulie, in reference to wicked men, that it doth not prophesie good concerning them, but evil. 1823 Brit. Critic Oct. 437 Frank, single-hearted, generous to an extreme, and touchily alive to the honour of her family and her sex. 1844 R. Wardlaw Lect. Prov. II. xxxix. 47 The hasty spirit..startles touchily at every word. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere III. vi. xlv. 305 Rose..had grown so touchily sensitive. 1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart i. iii. 56 ‘Well, what, Matchett?’ Anna said touchily. 2010 New Republic (Nexis) 4 Feb. 30 The man comes across..as a thoroughgoing crank: obsessive, possessive, touchily defensive about his father's work. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1653 |
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