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: irritably or peevishly sensitive : touchy. the tetchy manner of two women living in the same house Elizabeth Taylor †1975. tetchily. ˈte-chə-lē. adverb. tetchiness. ˈte-chē-nəs. noun. Did you know? One of the first cited uses of tetchy occurs in William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (1596).
TETCHY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary. Meaning of tetchy in English. tetchy. adjective. uk / ˈtetʃ.i / us / ˈtetʃ.i / Add to word list. easily made angry, unhappy, or upset: Be careful what you say to Anna - she's been a little tetchy lately. Synonyms. cranky (BAD-TEMPERED) mainly US informal. fractious. irritable. peevish.
adjective. us / ˈtetʃ.i / uk / ˈtetʃ.i / Add to word list. easily made angry, unhappy, or upset: Be careful what you say to Anna - she's been a little tetchy lately. Synonyms. cranky (BAD-TEMPERED) mainly US informal. fractious. irritable. peevish. petulant disapproving. testy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Bad-tempered.
If you're feeling tetchy, you're irritable or easily annoyed. Stepping in a puddle on your way to school and spending the whole day with cold, wet socks might make you tetchy.
Tetchy definition: irritable; touchy.. See examples of TETCHY used in a sentence.
If you say that someone is tetchy, you mean they are bad-tempered and likely to get angry suddenly without an obvious reason. [ mainly British , informal ] You always get tetchy when you're hungry.
tetchy - easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
Presumably from Middle English tatch, tache, tecche, teche (“blemish" ), influenced by touchy, from Old French tache, teche (Modern French tache ), from Vulgar Latin * tacca, from Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌽𐍃 (taikns, “sign" ) (compare Old English tacen (“sign, token" ), Modern English token ), from Proto-Indo-European *deik-.
Definition of tetchy adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
The meaning of TETCHY is irritably or peevishly sensitive : touchy. How to use tetchy in a sentence. Did you know?
