Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Peevish; testy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
techy .
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- adjective Easily
annoyed orirritated ;peevish ,testy orirascible
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- adjective easily irritated or annoyed
Etymologies
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Examples
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The narrative now is that he is getting "tetchy" about the stupid questions the media keep asking.
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I just have to hope that this kind of tetchy judicial questioning is the way they push the lawyers to make their best case.
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I guess "tetchy" came in when they completely revised it.
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MPA member Jenny Jones accused Mr Yates of being "tetchy" with the MPA when the issue was last discussed.
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MPA member Jenny Jones accused Mr Yates of being "tetchy" with the MPA when the issue was last discussed.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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MPA member Jenny Jones accused Mr Yates of being "tetchy" with the MPA when the issue was last discussed.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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It's down to midback again, and I'm very tetchy about it; at this length it's so heavy that it pulls most of the curl out of itself.
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I get tetchy, wanting to go out and get things done.
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Such things make the Davidites curse, along with his occasionally tetchy manner on television or a tendency to talk at, rather than to, some of his parliamentary colleagues.
David Miliband has left frontline politics – but for how long?
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He sits up in Connecticut, splendidly isolated, working day and night, a lonely and rather tetchy old man.
siddharthsoni commented on the word tetchy
Wonder about the origin... Something similar to itchy, I presume.
December 16, 2008
hekate101 commented on the word tetchy
From the verb 'tetch', a variant of the Yiddish 'kvetch'.
December 16, 2008