phlegmatic vs touchy

phlegmatic

adj
  • Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish. 

  • Generating, causing, or full of phlegm. 

noun
  • One who has a phlegmatic disposition. 

touchy

adj
  • Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable; requiring caution or tactfulness. 

  • Easily offended, oversensitive. 

  • Inclined to engage in physical touch. 

How often have the words phlegmatic and touchy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )