Meaning of tetchy | Babel Free

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Synonym of touchy: easily annoyed or irritated, peevish, testy, irascible; also (figurative) extremely sensitive, difficult to manage, use, or work.

Commonwealth, Ireland, Southern-US, UK

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Examples

“Nurce: ...But as I said, when it did tast the wormwood on the nipple of my dug, & felt it bitter, pretty foole to see⟳ it teachie and fall⟳ out with Dugge...”

“King. And came I not at last⟳ to comfort you? Du. No by the holie roode thou knowst it well, Thou camst on earth to make⟳ the earth my hell, A greuous burthen was thy berth to me, Techie and waiward was thy infancie, Thy schoele-daies frightful, desperate, wild, and furious.”

“Nurse: […]But as I said, when it did taste⟳ the worme-wood on the nipple of my dug, and felt it bitter, pretie foole, to see⟳ it teachie and fall⟳ out with the Dugge...”

“Our hart is so narrowly limited that (by euery little distaste) we are strangely altered, and being in this teasty tetchy way, presently we let⟳ flye foorth much vnseemelines.”

“I warrant, sir, he is, as you say⟳, a very precise acrimonious person—A tetchy repugnant kind of old gentleman.”

“They’re good boys, as I said afore; but they’re quick and tetchy—George, being the youngest, nat’rally is the tetchiest.”

“[…] the commonplace Communist simply loses his temper if you venture to doubt⟳ whether everything is being done in precisely the best and most intelligent way under the new régime. He is like⟳ a tetchy housewife who wants you to recognise⟳ that everything is in perfect order⟳ in the middle of an eviction.”

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