tetchy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

tetchy
    adj 1: 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}, {scratchy},
           {testy}, {tetchy}, {techy}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Tetchy \Tetch"y\, a.
   See {Techy}. --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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