touchous

English

Etymology

touch +‎ -ous

Adjective

touchous (comparative more touchous, superlative most touchous)

1. (rare, US, regional, chiefly Southern) Touchy; overly sensitive.
   • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

     He said Atticus was still touchous about us and the Radleys and it wouldn't do to push him any.