tetchy

tetch·y also tech·y  (tch)

adj. tetch·i·er, tetch·i·est

Peevish; testy: "As a critic gets older, he or she usually grows more tetchy and limited in responses" James Wolcott.

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[Probably from Middle English tache, teche, blemish (influenced by touchy), from Old French tache, teche, from Vulgar Latin *tacca, from Gothic taikns, sign; see deik- in Indo-European roots.]

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tetchi·ly adv.

tetchi·ness n.

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tetchy

Adjective

[tetchier, tetchiest] cross, irritable, or touchy [probably from obsolete tetch defect]

tetchily adv
tetchiness n

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

tetchy - easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" irritable, peevish, pettish, petulant, techy, testy, scratchy, nettlesome, peckish, cranky, fractious ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition

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tetchy

adjective irritable, cross, grumpy, crabbed, impatient, snappy, sullen, touchy, bad-tempered, petulant, irascible, cantankerous, peppery, ratty Brit., N.Z. (informal) testy, quarrelsome, fretful, short-tempered, waspish, peevish, quick-tempered, splenetic, snappish, liverish, captious

Translations

tetchy [ˈtɛtʃɪ] adj → irritable

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tetchy [ˈtɛtʃɪ] adj → hargneux/euse

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tetchy [ˈtɛtʃɪ] adj → gereizt

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tetchy [ˈtɛtʃɪ] adj → irritabile, irascibile