a touch nervous/a bit nervous

[MateuszMoś]

Hello, is the form: a touch + adjective acceptable? For instance, I am a touch nervous right now.

 

[Chris K]

I'm not wild about it, although it's not necessarily wrong. Sometimes we say "a tad nervous."

 

[london calling]

We'd use both in BE.

 

[velisarius]

"I am a touch nervous"- I don't think I've ever seen "a touch" used in this way with an adjective. Can anyone find a reputable example of this? With a noun it's fine: "There was a touch of sarcasm in his voice".

 

[Florentia52]

"A touch nervous" sounds fine to me, although it is pretty informal.

 

[velisarius]

Google Ngram Viewer agrees with you; "a touch nervous" seems quite popular, though the results for British English only really take off after 1980.