Usually means: Easily irritated or annoyed temperament.
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  1. tetchy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tetchy: Merriam-Webster
  3. tetchy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tetchy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tetchy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tetchy: Vocabulary.com
  7. tetchy: Wordnik
  8. tetchy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tetchy: Wiktionary
  10. tetchy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tetchy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tetchy: Dictionary.com
  13. tetchy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Tetchy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. tetchy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. tetchy: Rhymezone
  17. Tetchy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. tetchy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. tetchy: FreeDictionary.org
  20. tetchy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. tetchy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. tetchy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tetchy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tetchy: A Word A Day
  2. tetchy: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tetchy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tetchier as well.)

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adjective:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Synonym of touchy: easily annoyed or irritated, peevish, testy, irascible; also (figurative) extremely sensitive, difficult to manage, use, or work.

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