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 Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:29 am
tetchy • TETCH-ee • adjective
: irritably or peevishly sensitive : touchy
Example Sentence:
Nico sensed that his sister was in a tetchy mood, so he decided to wait until the next day to ask to borrow her car.
Did you know?
"Tetchy" is a word that may have been coined by Shakespeare -- its first known use in English occurs in Romeo and Juliet (1592). Etymologists are not certain how the word came about, but some have suggested that it derives from "tetch," an obsolete noun meaning "habit." The similarity both in meaning and pronunciation to "touchy" might lead you to conclude that "tetchy" is related to that word, but there is no conclusive evidence to suggest such a connection. The adjectives "teched" and "tetched," meaning "mentally unbalanced," are variations of "touched," and are probably also unrelated to "tetchy."
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:41 pm
why not relate tetchy and touchy?
that would make sense to me.
why do the experts object?
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:24 pm
I always thought it was just regional dialect and really was 'touchy'
Really surprised that it dates back to the Bard... eek
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