touchy (adj.)
- allergic
- anaphylactic
- argumentative
- bad-tempered
- bearish
- cantankerous
- captious
- chancy
- choleric
- close
- contentious
- crabbed
- crabby
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crusty
- dangerous
- delicate
- dicey
- disputatious
- dyspeptic
- edgy
- emotional
- empathetic
- empathic
- eruptive
- excitable
- explosive
- frightening
- goosy
- grouchy
- hair-raising
- hairy
- harmful
- hazardous
- high-spirited
- high-strung
- hot-tempered
- hypersensitive
- inflammable
- irascible
- irritable
- itchy
- mettlesome
- nerve-racking
- nervous
- overrefined
- oversensitive
- parlous
- peevish
- perturbable
- pettish
- petulant
- precarious
- prickly
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- ratty
- refined
- responsive
- risky
- sensitive
- short-tempered
- skittish
- slippery
- slippy
- snappish
- splenetic
- supersensitive
- sympathetic
- tactful
- temperamental
- tender
- tense
- terrifying
- testy
- tetchy
- thin-skinned
- ticklish
- touch-and-go
- tricky
- uncertain
- unpredictable
- unsafe
- unsure
- volatile
- volcanic
- waspish
In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow,
Thou 'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow,
Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee,
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
