irascible vs touchy

irascible

adj
  • Easily provoked to outbursts of anger; irritable. 

touchy

adj
  • Easily offended, oversensitive. 

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

  • Inclined to engage in physical touch. 

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