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Tetchy

adjective
1.
Easily irritated or annoyed.  Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy.  "Not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"






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"Tetchy" Quotes from Famous Books



... complete stranger, a man, I should guess, of hasty passions and tetchy temper. By the merest accident, at a somewhat crowded part, I unluckily elbowed the man into the kennel, and though I apologized in the handsomest way, he must take offense and seek to cut off my life, ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang



Words linked to "Tetchy" :   tetchiness, ill-natured



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