Tetchy

Definition: Tetchy

Tetchy

Adjective

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

Date "tetchy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Tetchy

Synonyms: cranky (adj), fractious (adj), irritable (adj), nettlesome (adj), peckish (adj), peevish (adj), pettish (adj), petulant (adj), techy (adj), testy (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
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 ".
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Tetchy

English words defined with "tetchy": tetchily. (references)

Etymologies containing "tetchy": touchy. (references)

"Tetchy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.45% of the time. "Tetchy" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	95.45%	21	76,261
Noun (singular)	4.55%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	22	N/A

Expression using "tetchy": cranky fractious irritable peevish peckish pettish petulant testy tetchy techy. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "tetchy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zemërak (choleric, cross, grumpy, ornery, peevish, peppery, petulant, quick tempered, techy, waspish), gjaknxehtë (hot tempered, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hot-headed, irascible, irritable, peppery, quick tempered, short tempered, techy, testy). (various references)

Arabic		‏نزق (cranky, cross, irritable, mad, pernickety, pettiness, petulance, quick, rattle-brained, ratty, scatter-brain, snippy, testy, touchiness), ‏سريع الغضب (combustible, crusty, hasty, inflammable, irascible, irate, irritable, passionate, peppery, quick tempered, short tempered, tempestuous, testy, ticklish, touchy). (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, techy, touchy, vinegary), обидчив (hoity toity, huffish, miffy, pettish, prickly, resentful, sensitive, spiky, squeamish, susceptible, techy, testy, thin-skinned, touchy, umbrageous). (various references)

French		irritable (short tempered), grincheux (testy). (various references)

German		gereizt (edgy, excited, frayed, galled, hackles up, irascible, irritable, irritably, irritated, narky, peevish, petulant, petulantly, provoked, ratty, ruffled, short tempered, supercharged, teased, testily, testy, touchy). (various references)

Greek		θυμώδησ (choleric, fretful, spitfire, techy). (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, techy, testy). (various references)

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

Pig Latin		etchytay

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, techy, testy, unkind, unpleasant), mal-humorado (bad tempered, cantankerous, choleric, crusty, glum, ill timed, ill-humoured, illiberal, Moody, mumpish, snappish, snappy, snotty, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, techy, testy), irritado (angry, huffish, huffy, peeved, pettish, resentful, roily, snappish, snappy, snotty, sore, techy, testy, 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, techy, testy, touchy, waspish), irascível (fractious, fretful, gusty, hot-blooded, intractable, irascible, irritancy, quarrelsome, spunky, techy, testy, touchy, waspish), impertinente (arrogant, brash, cantankerous, currish, impertinent, mumps, peewit, pernickety, pettitoes, petulant, querulous, rat, ratty, saucy, snappish, snappy, techy, testy). (various references)

Romanian		supãrãcios (cantankerous, cross-grained, huffish, huffy, humoursome, irascible, irritable, liveried, peevish, pettish, scrupulous, short tempered, sour, testy, touchy), morocãnos (adust, crabbed, cross-grained, crusty, grouty, gruff, grumbling, grumbly, grumpish, grumpy, ill tempered, morose, morosely, peevish, snuffy, sour, sulky, sullen, surly), iritabil (choleric, combustible, crabbed, crusty, excitable, fretful, gusty, inflammable, irascible, irritable, jumpy, petulaht, petulant, testy, ticklish, waspy). (various references)

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

Serbo-Croatian		razdražljiv (crabby, grumpy, high strung, highly strung, irritable, jumpy, nervous, nervy, short tempered, techy, waspish), osetljiv (dainty, fast, pettish, queasy, sensible, sensitive, sensuous, sentient, susceptible, thin-skinned). (various references)

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

Swedish		snarstucken (huffy, spiky, testy, touchy). (various references)

Thai		โกรธง่าย (irascible, testy). (various references)

Turkish		huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, crusty, cursed, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, mean, Moody, out of humour, out of sorts, peeved, peevish, peppery, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, ratty, rusty, shirty, snappish, spleenful, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, sulky, surly, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded), hırçın (acrimonious, cantankerous, combative, gruff, ill tempered, irritable, peeved, peevish, pettish, pugnacious, shrewish, sour, vinegary, vixenish), alıngan (easily offended, edgy, fragile, irritable, pettish, petulant, sensitive, sore, squeamish, stuffy, susceptible, susceptive, swift to take offence, techy, tender, testy, thin skin, ticklish, tickly, touchy, umbrageous). (various references)

Ukranian		уразливий (biting, defenceless, defenseless, huffy, pregnable, sensitive, squeamish, techy, thin-skinned, vulnerable), дратівливий (bilious, capernoited, crabbed, crabby, criss cross, exasperating, fretful, grumpy, hoity toity, impatient, irascible, irritable, petulant, short tempered, spleenful, warm). (various references)

Vietnamese		hay bực mình; dễ bực mình hay sốt ruột (techy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Tetchy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: etchy, tachy, teachy, teethy, tetch, titch, Tithby, tretch. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-h-t-t-y"
	-1 letter: techy, tythe.
	-2 letters: etch, hyte, teth, they, yech, yett.
	-3 letters: eth, het, hey, tet, the, thy, tye, yeh, yet.
	-4 letters: eh, et, he, ye.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-h-t-t-y"
	+2 letters: chattery, stretchy, tetchily, thickety, trachyte.
	+3 letters: athrocyte, crotchety, ecthymata, ethnicity, stitchery, synthetic, tetrarchy, thymocyte, trachytes.
	+4 letters: athrocytes, ethicality, hepatocyte, heterocyst, histiocyte, hysteretic, synthetics, thetically, thymectomy, thymocytes.
	+5 letters: bathymetric, countermyth, epiphytotic, erythristic, erythrocyte, hepatectomy, hepatocytes, heterocysts, heterolytic, heterotypic, histiocytes, hyperstatic, hypothecate, mythopoetic, sympathetic, synesthetic, thiocyanate, thrombocyte, tracheotomy, trenchantly.
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