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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tetchy \Tetch"y\, adjective See {Techy}. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tetchy
adjective: easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [syn: {cranky}, {fractious}, {irritable}, {nettlesome}, {peevish}, {peckish}, {pettish}, {petulant}, {testy}, {techy}] [also: {tetchiest}, {tetchier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "tetchy": allergic, anaphylactic, cantankerous, choleric, cranky, cross, delicate, empathetic, empathic, goosy, high-strung, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, ill-humored, irritable, itchy, miffy, nervous, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, passible, prickly, quick-tempered, ratty, refined, responsive, sensitive, skittish, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, temperamental, tender, testy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy
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