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Definition of Techy
1. Adjective. Easily irritated or annoyed. "Not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
Similar to: Ill-natured
Derivative terms: Crank, Crankiness, Fractiousness, Irritability, Irritability, Peevishness, Pettishness, Petulance, Testiness, Tetchiness
Definition of Techy
1. a. Peevish; fretful; irritable.
Definition of Techy
1. Adjective. (informal) technical ¹
2. Adjective. (obsolete form of tetchy) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Techy
1. tetchy [adj TECHIER, TECHIEST] : TECHILY [adv] - See also: tetchy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Techy
Literary usage of Techy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Words and Their Ways in English Speech by James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge (1901)
"The change from techy to touchy is instructive. Touch is often vulgarly pronounced
fetch, and it was therefore easy to infer that techy was a ..."
2. Words and Their Ways in English Speech by James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge (1901)
"The change from techy to touchy is instructive. Touch is often vulgarly pronounced
fetch, and it was therefore easy to infer that techy was a ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Some consider techy itself a corruption of touchy; but this view is quite untenable.
... And he 's as techy [var. tetchy] to be woo'd to woo As she is ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"TETCHY,'techy, touchy, fretful, peevish. (F., - C.) In Kich. Ill, iv. 4.168 ; Troil.
i. ... The sense of tetchy (better techy) is full of fetches or ..."
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