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tetchier; tetchiest
: irritably or peevishly sensitive : touchy
the tetchy manner of two women living in the same house Elizabeth Taylor †1975
tetchily adverb
tetchiness noun

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One of the first cited uses of tetchy occurs in William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (1596). Etymologists are not certain how the word came about, but some have suggested that it derives from tetch, an obsolete noun meaning "habit." The similarity both in meaning and pronunciation to touchy might lead you to conclude that tetchy is related to that word, but there is no conclusive evidence to suggest such a connection. The adjectives teched and tetched, meaning "mentally unbalanced," are variations of touched, and are probably also unrelated to tetchy.

Example Sentences

a morose and tetchy resident of a nursing home
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Word History

Etymology

perhaps from obsolete tetch habit

First Known Use

1596, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of tetchy was in 1596

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