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Titch vs Tetch - What's the difference?

titch | tetch |

As nouns the difference between titch and tetch

is that titch is (british|colloquial) a very small person; a small child; a small amount while tetch is .

As a verb tetch is

(regional).

titch

English

Noun

(titches)
  • (British, colloquial) A very small person; a small child; a small amount.
    • "I'll have just a titch more cake."
  • * 1988 Howard Lewis Russell: Rush to Nowhere (page 148) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1556110758&id=GvENAAAAIAAJ&q=%22just+a+titch%22&dq=%22just+a+titch%22&pgis=1]
    • ...and just a titch of my special pepper sauce over these turnip greens

    See also

    * tich

    References

    * Cambridge (Small child sense is UK only)

    tetch

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (regional)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1877, author=Samuel Woodworth Cozzens, title=The Young Trail Hunters, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , 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.' }}

    Noun

    (es)
  • * {{quote-news, year=2001, date=November 2, author=Monica Kendrick, title=Spot Check, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , 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. }}