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tetchy

 : 
Adjective
 : 
tetch=y

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective tetchy has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

tetchya. 
     See Techy.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tetchy, adj. (also techy) (-ier, -iest) peevish, irritable.

Derivative
tetchily adv. tetchiness n.
Etymology
prob. f. tecche, tache blemish, fault f. OF teche, tache

THESAURUS

tetchy

allergic, anaphylactic, cantankerous, choleric, cranky, cross, delicate, empathetic, empathic, goosy, high-strung, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, ill-humored, irritable, itchy, miffy, nervous, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, passible, prickly, quick-tempered, ratty, refined, responsive, sensitive, skittish, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, temperamental, tender, testy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy

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tetchy

Irascibility

N irascibility, irascibleness, temper, crossness, susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity, pugnacity, excitability, bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable, temper, genus irritabile, hot blood, ill humor, asperity, churlishness, huff, a word and a blow, Sir Fretful Plagiary, brabbler, Tartar, shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe, porcupine, spitfire, fire eater, fury, irascible, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, irritable, susceptible, excitable, thin-skinned, fretful, fidgety, on the fret, hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy, like touchwood, like tinder, huffy, pettish, petulant, waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, sudden and quick in quarrel, querulous, captious, moodish, quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious, pugnacious, cantankerous, exceptious, restiff, churlish, cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, fractious, peevish, acari=atre, in a bad temper, sulky, angry, resentful, resentive, vindictive, Int, pish!, a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes, quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor, vino tortus et ira.

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