high-strung

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Nervous; anxious; excited or excitable

Three cups of coffee made him a fidgety and high-strung lecturer.

being in a tense state
highly nervous, tense, jumpy
highstrung
Strung to a high pitch; spirited; sensitive; as, a high-strung horse