Tetchy Definition

techē
techier, techiest, tetchier, tetchiest
adjective
tetchier, tetchiest
Touchy; irritable; peevish.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Tetchy

Adjective

Base Form:
tetchy
Comparative:
tetchier
Superlative:
tetchiest

Origin of Tetchy

  • Presumably from Middle English tatch, tache, tecche, teche (“blemish"), influenced by touchy, from Old French tache, teche (Modern French tache), from Vulgar Latin *tacca, from Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌽𐍃 (taikns, “sign") (compare Old English tacen (“sign, token"), Modern English token), from Proto-Indo-European *deik-.

    From Wiktionary

  • Probably from Middle English tache, teche blemish (influenced by touchy) from Old French tache, teche from Vulgar Latin tacca from Gothic taikns sign deik- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • 1592, teachie, in Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene iii, line 32.

    From Wiktionary

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