Full of malignity; given to cherish anger or resentment.

liable to take offence, easily offended or angered; cf. sense 4a.

figurative. Easily upset in temper; apt to be offended, sensitive, touchy.

Highly sensitive in temper or disposition; easily offended or angered; liable to take offence with little cause; irascible, irritable, tetchy.

Capable of or liable to emotional response. Cf. sensitive, adj. 4. Strongly affected by negative emotional influences; easily hurt or offended; = sens…

Touchy, irritable, easily offended.

Sensitive to injury; ready to take offence; ‘touchy’. Obsolete except as figurative from A. 10c.

Ticklish; = kittly, adj.

Not ready to ‘digest’ or brook offences. Obsolete. (Cf. digest, v. 6.)

Annoyed, displeased; ready to take offence.

†(a) Arrogant, choleric. (b) Ready to take ‘huff’ or offence; touchy, pettish.

Somewhat snuffy or touchy.

Of persons or their feelings: Inclined to be irritated or grieved; irritable, sensitive; angry, resentful. Also const. about, on, and at. Now collo…

= miffy, adj.

Of the nature of, inclined to, characteristic of, or showing resentment (in various senses).

Very susceptible to, or readily affected by, emotional or aesthetic impressions; possessing delicate or tender feelings; having sensibility. Also…

Ready to take offence; short-tempered, peevish. Now dialect or Obsolete.

= miffy, adj.

Easily offended or irritated.

Ready to take offence, irritable. dialect.

= porcupine-like adj.

Capable of being insulted; open to insult; quick to feel insult.

Liable to take offence, easily offended. rare.

Petulant, touchy; (also, now chiefly) haughty, supercilious; = hoity-toity, adj. b.

figurative. Of a person: quick to react angrily, ready to take offence; (of an attitude, reaction, etc.) oversensitive, touchy.

‘Huffy’, ‘touchy’.

Capable of being or inclined to be piqued.

Capable of being or liable to be offended.

figurative. Characterized by extreme emotional sensitivity; emotionally scarred or fragile. Frequently in raw nerve; cf. to touch (also hit) a (raw)…

English regional (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire). Apt to take offence, touchy. Also: offended, annoyed.

= huffish, adj.

= porcupine-like adj.; (also) abounding in porcupines.

Aggressive, excitable, touchy.

Restive, anxious, touchy.