nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqknzsux7p6lzwzdedp3m8c3c92z0swzc0xyy5glvse58txj5e9ztqt54hp5 (nprofile…4hp5) I don't read the last one as 'quintessentially American'. The internet tells me the earliest reference recorded by the OED is rather old:
"The OED's earliest citation for touched as an adjective, meaning slightly crazy, is from John Humfrey's 1672 book, Authority of Magistrate of Religion: 'I count this man now as one in a Fever, that is, touched in his head, and who can help such a conceit?'"
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