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- DictionaryTetch·y/ˈteCHē/
adjective
- 1. bad-tempered and irritable: "she had always been tetchy and impatient with him"
The meaning of TETCHY is irritably or peevishly sensitive : touchy. How to use tetchy in a sentence. Did you know?
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. petulant disapproving. testy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Bad-tempered.
Tetchy definition: irritable; touchy.. See examples of TETCHY used in a sentence.
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. argumentative.
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.
6 days ago · If you say that someone is tetchy, you mean they are bad-tempered and likely to get angry suddenly without an obvious reason.
tetchy. ( ˈtɛtʃɪ) adj, tetchier or tetchiest. being or inclined to be cross, irritable, or touchy. [C16: probably from obsolete tetch defect, from Old French tache spot, of Germanic origin] ˈtetchily adv. ˈtetchiness n.
If you say that someone is tetchy, you mean they are bad-tempered and likely to get angry suddenly without an obvious reason.
Probably from Middle English tache, teche blemish (influenced by touchy) from Old French tache, teche from Vulgar Latin tacca from Gothic taikns sign deik- in Indo-European roots. From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
Definition of tetchy adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
