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- Dictionarytetchy/ˈtɛtʃi/
adjective
- 1. irritable and bad-tempered: "she had always been tetchy and impatient with him"
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The meaning of TETCHY is irritably or peevishly sensitive : touchy. How to use tetchy in a sentence. Did you know?
adjective. uk / ˈtetʃ.i / us / ˈtetʃ.i / Add to word list. easily made angry, unhappy, or upset: Be careful what you say to Anna - she's been a little tetchy lately. Synonyms. cranky (BAD-TEMPERED) mainly US informal. fractious. irritable. peevish. petulant disapproving. testy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Bad-tempered.
Tetchy definition: irritable; touchy.. See examples of TETCHY used in a sentence.
If you say that someone is tetchy, you mean they are bad-tempered and likely to get angry suddenly without an obvious reason. [ mainly British , informal ] You always get tetchy when you're hungry.
Definition of tetchy adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If you're feeling tetchy, you're irritable or easily annoyed. Stepping in a puddle on your way to school and spending the whole day with cold, wet socks might make you tetchy.
Define tetchy. tetchy synonyms, tetchy pronunciation, tetchy translation, English dictionary definition of tetchy. also tech·y adj. tetch·i·er , tetch·i·est also tech·i·er or tech·i·est Peevish; testy: "As a critic gets older, he or she usually grows more tetchy and...
