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tetchy | tetchiness |

As an adjective tetchy

is easily annoyed or irritated; peevish, testy or irascible.

As a noun tetchiness is

the quality of being tetchy, or irritable.

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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    * (l) * (l)

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    tetchiness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being tetchy, or irritable
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 18, Charles Isherwood, Hedda Forever: An Antiheroine for the Ages, New York Times, url=
    • , passage=Through it all she exudes tetchiness , weariness and a general contempt for everything in sight. }}

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    * tetchily * tetchy