Meaning

1 senses

  1. (childish)To touch.

Origin

A variant of earlier tetchy (“cranky, easily annoyed, difficult to handle”), under influen

A variant of earlier tetchy (“cranky, easily annoyed, difficult to handle”), under influence from some senses of touch (“affect, disturb”) and simulating touch + -y.

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Forms

touchies, touchying, touchied, touchied

regular

Base formtouchy · to touchy
3rd person singulartouchies
Present participletouchying
Past simpletouchied
Past participletouchied

Tenses

touchy · touchied · will touchy · have touchied

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytouchy
he, she, ittouchies

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave touchied
he, she, ithas touchied

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill touchy

Past simpleLesson

all personstouchied

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
touchingtouchpadtoughB2

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