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Letchy vs Tetchy - What's the difference?

letchy | tetchy |

As adjectives the difference between letchy and tetchy

is that letchy is alternative form of lechy while tetchy is easily annoyed or irritated; peevish, testy or irascible.

letchy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

    • tetchy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Easily annoyed or irritated; peevish, testy or irascible
  • * 1592 , (William Shakespeare), (Romeo and Juliette), , (Nurse speaking, spelling modernized):
    • When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple
    Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,
    To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!

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