Tetch vs Tetchy - What's the difference?
tetch | tetchy |
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* {{quote-book, year=1877, author=Samuel Woodworth Cozzens, title=The Young Trail Hunters, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Wal, I sot there, eatin' away, and, the fust thing I knowed, I kind 'er felt suthin' tetch my shoulder. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1880, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=Roughing It, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The minute we'd tetch off a blast 'n' the fuse'd begin to sizzle, he'd give a look as much as to say: 'Well, I'll have to git you to excuse me,' an' it was surpris'n' the way he'd shin out of that hole 'n' go f'r a tree. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1919, author=O. Henry, title=Roads of Destiny, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Miss Lucy tetch you on de shoulder," continued the old man, never heeding, "wid a s'ord, and say: 'I mek you a knight, Suh Robert--rise up, pure and fearless and widout reproach.' }}
* {{quote-news, year=2001, date=November 2, author=Monica Kendrick, title=Spot Check, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=The three songs I've heard so far are low-key and restrained, with a tetch of honky-tonk tension--the sound of a heart being bounced up and down like a squishy yo-yo. }} Easily annoyed or irritated; peevish, testy or irascible
* 1592 , (William Shakespeare), (Romeo and Juliette), , (Nurse speaking, spelling modernized):
As a verb tetch
is eye dialect of lang=en.As a noun tetch
is eye dialect of lang=en.As an adjective tetchy is
easily annoyed or irritated; peevish, testy or irascible.tetch
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(er)- 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!