tetchy
adjective/ˈtetʃi/
/ˈtetʃi/
(informal)- easily annoyed synonym irritable
- He sounded tetchy when I asked him where he’d been.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: probably from a variant of Scots tache ‘blotch, fault’, from Old French teche.Definitions on the go
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