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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective tetchy has 1 sense
- tetchy(s = adj.all) cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy - easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" Derived form noun tetchiness1
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
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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, touchyROGET THESAURUS
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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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