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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.
: 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).
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.
tetchy - easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
Tetchy definition: irritable; touchy.. See examples of TETCHY used in a sentence.
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.
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.
