Techy

Definition: Techy

Techy

Adjective

1. Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Techy \Tech"y\, adjective. [From Old English tecche, tache, habit, bad habit, vice, Old French tache, teche, spot, stain, blemish, habit, vice, French tache spot, blemish; probably akin to English tack small nail. See Tack small nail, and compare to Touchy.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Techy

Irascibility

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 ".

Crosswords: Techy

Expression using "techy": cranky fractious irritable peevish peckish pettish petulant testy tetchy techy. Additional references.

Albanian

zemërak (choleric, cross, grumpy, ornery, peevish, peppery, petulant, quick tempered, tetchy, waspish), gjaknxehtë (hot tempered, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hot-headed, irascible, irritable, peppery, quick tempered, short tempered, testy, tetchy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

раздразнителен (bad tempered, chippy, choleric, edgy, excitable, explosive, fretful, gingery, ill, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, irascible, irritable, liverish, livery, nervous, nervy, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, raspy, ratty, snappish, stroppy, tetchy, touchy, vinegary), обидчив (hoity toity, huffish, miffy, pettish, prickly, resentful, sensitive, spiky, squeamish, susceptible, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, touchy, umbrageous). (various references)

Farsi 

کج خلق (Crab, Irritable, Morose, Peevish, Petulant, Querulous, Snappish, Sullen, Tedious, Testy), حساس (Acute, Alive, Delicate, Exquisite, Sensitive, Sensory, Stark, Susceptible, Tender, Ticklish, Touchy, Vigilant), زودرنج (Miff, Peevish, Petulant, Querulous, Testy, Touchy, Umbrageous). (various references)

Greek 

θυμώδησ (choleric, fretful, spitfire, tetchy). (various references)

Hungarian

ingerlékeny (be irritated, bilious, excitable, fractious, fretful, grumpy, highly strung, hot tempered, hot-tempered, ill tempered, inflammable, irascible, irritable, like a bear with a sore head, nervous, nettlesome, neurotic, peevish, peppery, perverse, petulant, prickly, testy, tetchy). (various references)

Italian

irritabile (bad tempered, crotchety, edgy, excitable, fretful, irritable, jittery, petulant, snappish, testy, tetchy, touchy, vinegary). (various references)

Pig Latin

echytay.(various references)

Portuguese

rabugento (acrimonious, atrabilious, brutal, criss cross, crusty, currish, faultless, fiddle-faddle, fractious, fretfulness, frustrate, Grove, gruff, harsh, Moody, morose, peevish, pettish, querulous, rough, shrewish, snuffy, sour, sullen, surly, testy, tetchy, unkind, unpleasant), mal-humorado (bad tempered, cantankerous, choleric, crusty, glum, ill timed, ill-humoured, illiberal, Moody, mumpish, snappish, snappy, snotty, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, tetchy), irritado (angry, huffish, huffy, peeved, pettish, resentful, roily, snappish, snappy, snotty, sore, testy, tetchy, waxy), irritável (bilious, crab, crabbed, crusty, edgy, fretful, grumpy, hot-blooded, huffish, huffy, irate, irritable, liver-coloured, liveried, livery, nervous, nervy, petulant, shirty, short tempered, testy, tetchy, touchy, waspish), irascível (fractious, fretful, gusty, hot-blooded, intractable, irascible, irritancy, quarrelsome, spunky, testy, tetchy, touchy, waspish), impertinente (arrogant, brash, cantankerous, currish, impertinent, mumps, peewit, pernickety, pettitoes, petulant, querulous, rat, ratty, saucy, snappish, snappy, testy, tetchy). (various references)

Russian 

обидчивый (hoity toity, huffish, huffy, pettish, quick to take offence, sensitive, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, umbrageous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razdražljiv (crabby, grumpy, high strung, highly strung, irritable, jumpy, nervous, nervy, short tempered, tetchy, waspish). (various references)

Spanish

picajoso (peevish, tetchy), irritable (annulled, excitable, fretful, irritable, liverish, peckish, tetchy, touchy), irascible (hot tempered, irascible, peppery, testy, tetchy). (various references)

Turkish

asabi (choleric, crusty, hot-blooded, hot-headed, irritable, nervous, prickly, quick tempered, ratty, short tempered, testy, waspish), alıngan (easily offended, edgy, fragile, irritable, pettish, petulant, sensitive, sore, squeamish, stuffy, susceptible, susceptive, swift to take offence, tender, testy, tetchy, thin skin, ticklish, tickly, touchy, umbrageous), çabuk kızan (irritable, peckish, resentful, spunky). (various references)

Ukranian 

уразливий (biting, defenceless, defenseless, huffy, pregnable, sensitive, squeamish, tetchy, thin-skinned, vulnerable), дразливий (choleric, crabby, crusty, fractious, huffish, pettish, quick tempered, sore, splenic). (various references)

Vietnamese 

hay bực mình; dễ bực mình hay sốt ruột (tetchy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: etch, hyte, they, yech.

-2 letters: eth, het, hey, the, thy, tye, yeh, yet.

-3 letters: eh, et, he, ye.

+1 letter: cherty, chesty, scythe, tetchy.

+2 letters: chantey, chayote, chutney, ecthyma, ethylic, kvetchy, lecythi, scythed, scythes, sketchy, stenchy, techily, yachted, yachter.

+3 letters: bitchery, botchery, butchery, chanteys, chastely, chattery, chayotes, chutneys, cutchery, hatchery, hecticly, helicity, hemocyte, hypothec, hysteric, latchkey, lecythis, lecythus, methylic, phyletic, scyphate, stretchy, tetchily, thearchy, theodicy, thickety, trachyte, watcheye, witchery, yachters, yachtmen.

+4 letters: archetype, athrocyte, butcherly, champerty, chemistry, crotchety, ecthymata, entelechy, epiphytic, ethically, ethnicity, ethylenic, eurythmic, haecceity, hemocytes, hemolytic, heptarchy, hesitancy, hypocrite, hypothecs, hysterics, latchkeys, mythicize, pachytene, pentarchy, phagocyte, sketchily, stitchery, synthetic, teachably, teacherly, tetrarchy, theocracy, thylacine, thymocyte, tracheary, trachytes, treachery, watcheyes, yachtsmen.

+5 letters: apothecary, archetypal, archetypes, athrocytes, bewitchery, catchpenny, chalybeate, charactery, chatoyance, choanocyte, chocolatey, chrysolite, chrysotile, coherently, cytochrome, detachably, detachedly, diphyletic, ecchymotic, endophytic, ethicality, ethnically, eurhythmic, eurybathic, eurythmics, fetchingly, flycatcher, hectically, hepatocyte, hermatypic, heterocyst, histiocyte, hyperacute, hypertonic, hypocenter, hypocrites, hysteretic, hysterical, inchoately, lymphocyte, macrophyte, mesophytic, metaphysic, myasthenic, mythicized, mythicizer, mythicizes, mythopoeic, pachytenes, periphytic, phagocytes, phenocryst, phenotypic, phylactery, polychaete, sphericity, strychnine, synthetics, technology, thetically, thylacines, thymectomy, thymocytes, trenchancy, trichogyne, trierarchy, unchastely, wretchedly, xerophytic.

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