Adjective complement with noun phrase

• get: Think you are getting a bit tetchy here Steve.

Modifies a noun

• game: This was clawed back by Durbach in a tough close tetchy second game.

• mood: All that said, tho, it would have to be me in a very tetchy mood to say it mattered at all.

• exchange: But please don't get heavy about it there are too many tetchy exchanges about who invented what.

Modifying Another Word

• little: The Eagles Don Henley, who has been remarkably relaxed so far, has just got a little tetchy.

• very: All that said, tho, it would have to be me in a very tetchy mood to say it mattered at all.

• increasingly: As the match progressed it became increasingly tetchy with several personal battles carrying on all over the pitch.

• so: No wonder he'd become so tetchy... " There you go again!

Used with adjective complement

• get: Toward the end of the practice people were getting tetchy.

• become: No wonder he'd become so tetchy... " There you go again!

• feel: When you want something big from your mom and dad, you don't just blurt it out when they are obviously feeling tetchy.