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Meaning of "tetchy" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TETCHY

Probably from obsolete tetch defect, from Old French tache spot, of Germanic origin.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TETCHY

tetchy  [ˈtɛtʃɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TETCHY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tetchy is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TETCHY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tetchy in the English dictionary

The definition of tetchy in the dictionary is being or inclined to be cross, irritable, or touchy.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TETCHY


catchy
ˈkætʃɪ
Comaneci
ˌkɒməˈnɛtʃɪ
crunchy
ˈkrʌntʃɪ
dolce
ˈdɒltʃɪ
duce
ˈduːtʃɪ
escabeche
ˌɛskəˈbɛtʃɪ
Hitachi
hɪˈtætʃɪ
itchy
ˈɪtʃɪ
Karachi
kəˈrɑːtʃɪ
kvetchy
ˈkvɛtʃɪ
Leonardo
ˌliːəˈnɑːdəʊdəˈvɪntʃɪ
Medici
ˈmɛdɪtʃɪ
Ranchi
ˈræntʃɪ
raunchy
ˈrɔːntʃɪ
semplice
ˈsɛmplɪtʃɪ
sketchy
ˈskɛtʃɪ
stretchy
ˈstrɛtʃɪ
veloce
vɪˈləʊtʃɪ
vetchy
ˈvɛtʃɪ
Vinci
ˈvɪntʃɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TETCHY

tetanus
tetany
tetartohedral
tetartohedralism
tetartohedrally
tetartohedrism
tetchier
tetchiest
tetchily
tetchiness
tete
teth
tether
tetherball
Tethys
Teton Range
tetra
tetrabasic
tetrabasicity
tetrabrach

WORDS THAT END LIKE TETCHY

bitchy
blotchy
botchy
clutchy
fratchy
glitchy
hitchy
notchy
patchy
pitchy
scratchy
slutchy
snatchy
snitchy
splotchy
switchy
titchy
twitchy
uncatchy
witchy

Synonyms and antonyms of tetchy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TETCHY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «tetchy» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of tetchy

Translation of «tetchy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TETCHY

Find out the translation of tetchy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tetchy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tetchy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

易怒
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tetchy
570 millions of speakers

English

tetchy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चिड़चिड़ा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نزق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

норовом
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tetchy
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

খিট্খিটে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

irritable
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tetek
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gereizt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

tetchy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

성 잘내는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tetes
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tetchy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எளிதில் கோபமடைகிற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चिडखोर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hırçın
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

irritabile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tetchy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

норовом
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tetchy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

tetchy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

prikkelbaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tetchy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tetchy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tetchy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TETCHY»

The term «tetchy» is regularly used and occupies the 89.821 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TETCHY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tetchy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tetchy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tetchy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TETCHY»

Discover the use of tetchy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tetchy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Somewhere Fun
ROSEMARY: An artist should be anti—social and tetchy. CECELIA: Touchy? ROSEMARY: Tetchy. CECELIA: Tetchy.? ROSEMARY: T.E.T.C.H.Y. A fifty cent word. Pay up. Joking aside. Tell me, Cecelia, how's your phantom wisdom tooth?
Jenny Schwartz, 2013
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Sketches and Recollections
Some sort of an excuse he must make ; do'nt you think so 1 ' Before I had time to reply, Colonel S , the party in question, entered the place — much to the astonishment, and no little to the disappointment, of Simon Tetchy, who, by this visit, was ...
John Poole, 1835
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Nana, Poppa and Tetchy Tui
Includes a resource section with information about common backyard birds. Suggested level: junior, primary.
‎2012
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The Road to Infinite Phant
'Only ants and beetles use it, I suppose.' 'I'll have you know that Stub and Tetchy used it.' 'It supported their weight? At the speed the were traveling they probably bounded right over it, hey?' 'Well you're right about Stub, he was just receiving a ...
Barrington Strydom, 2005
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A New You ePub
He gets defensive and is tetchy in return. The whole situation escalates and nobody benefits. You behave in a tetchy way, because his lateness made you feel tetchy. Your emotions have changed in response to an external stimulus. Next time ...
Nicola Cook, 2013
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The comic sketch-book; or, Sketches and recollections
Tetchy, who had drawn himself up at the rate of fifteen inches to the foot, and put on an awfully pompous look (which, by the bye, it was hardly possible to behold and yet maintain one's gravity), was utterly disconcerted by this unexpected ...
John Poole, 1859
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
tetchy. F. therapeutic. quick-tempered, choleric; informal snappish, snappy, chippy, grouchy, cranky, on a short fuse; Brit. informal shirty, stroppy, narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head; N. Amer. informal peckish, soreheaded; Austral.
Maurice Waite, 2009
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Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics
Still, all the neighborhood knew that old Tetchy had an immense bed of strawberries ; they could see that through the cracks in the fence. Then he had fixed up a large number of seats in different parts of the garden, and there, during the ...
‎1865
9
Report and Transactions
Johnson says. " Touchy (from touch), peevish." Webster, " Touchy (vulgarly techy or tetchy), peevish." Skeat, however, says it is " doubtless often used as if derived from touch, but really is a corruption of tetchy." Since the publication of Skeat's ...
‎1883
10
Report & Transactions
Webster, " Touchy (vulgarly techy or tetchy), peevish." Skeat, however, says it is " doubtless often used as if derived from touch, but really is a corruption of tetchy." Since the publication of Skeat's Etymological Dictionary, the word has come ...
Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1883

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TETCHY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tetchy is used in the context of the following news items.
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VIDEO: Selecter lets actions speak louder than words after tetchy
VIDEO: Selecter lets actions speak louder than words after tetchy club game. Previous. 16/07/2015 - 09:34:06Back to Sport Home. By Kevin Murphy. Disciplinary ... «BreakingNews.ie, Jul 15»
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Tired, tetchy, low sex drive? You could have 'adrenal fatigue'
Four years ago, if you'd met me you would have found little out of the ordinary: a woman rushing around town, exercising, socialising and working on multiple ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
3
6500 new words: Scrabble goes techie, some players tetchy
THAT pesky Z tile has traditionally been hard to get rid of during those hotly-contested Scrabble games. But with lolz (laughs) and bezzy (best friend) now ... «Northern Star, May 15»
4
Hetch Hetchy Makes San Franciscans a Touch Tetchy
Naturalist John Muir, who founded the Sierra Club in 1892, helped spawn one of the most formidable forces in U.S. politics—but he couldn't save Yosemite's ... «Wall Street Journal, May 15»
5
Tetchy Cameron dials up SNP attack by warning English voters …
Tetchy Cameron dials up SNP attack by warning English voters would lose out. The PM suggested that a Labour government reliant on nationalist support would ... «New Statesman, Apr 15»
6
Tetchy Arsene Wenger criticises managerial 'circus' surrounding …
"I am not an agency to place managers. I find that circus a bit ridiculous, honestly", Wenger says after Dortmund announcement yesterday. Share; Share; Tweet ... «mirror.co.uk, Apr 15»
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Tall task ahead as monks remain tetchy about transfer of tigers
TRANSFERRING 146 tigers from Wat Pa Luang Ta Bua in Kanchanaburi's Saiyok district will be hard work even though the facilities to relocate the tigers are ... «The Nation, Apr 15»
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Traffic light preacher at hand for tetchy Joburg motorists
Johannesburg - The morning commute into Sandton is its own kind of hell. One malfunctioning traffic light or broken down car in the wrong place spells disaster, ... «News24, Apr 15»
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We're all tired, tetchy and hungry, say BBC crew – but we don't hit …
Declining support for pressurised TV crews has inflicted a serious wound on BBC in the shape of the Clarkson sacking. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod. «The Guardian, Mar 15»
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Tetchy thoughts on time
Some months ago, at an airport, I got chatting with a Pakistani man who was a nurse in Finland. He was wearing one of those watches you see in the glossy ... «The Hindu, Mar 15»

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