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tetchy

adjective
🔊/ˈtetʃi/
🔊/ˈtetʃi/
 (informal)
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  1. easily annoyed 易怒的；暴躁的；动辄发怒的synonym irritable
    • He sounded tetchy when I asked him where he’d been.当我问他去过哪里时，他听起来很随和。
    Topics Feelingsc2
    Word Originlate 16th cent.: probably from a variant of Scots tache ‘blotch, fault’, from Old French teche.