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   tetchy

   /ˈtɛtʃi/

   adjective

   • 1. irritable and bad-tempered: "she had always been tetchy and impatient with him"

   Word Origin late 16th century: probably from a variant of Scots tache ‘blotch, fault’, from Old French teche.

   Derivatives

   • 1. tetchily adverb
   • 2. tetchiness noun

   Scrabble Points: 14

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