tetchy
adjective
[ ˈtɛtʃi ]
• irritable and bad-tempered.
• "she had always been tetchy and impatient with him"
Similar:
irritable,
irascible,
peevish,
crotchety,
cantankerous,
cross,
fractious,
disagreeable,
pettish,
crabbed,
crabby,
waspish,
prickly,
testy,
peppery,
impatient,
grumpy,
bad-tempered,
ill-tempered,
ill-natured,
ill-humoured,
touchy,
scratchy,
volatile,
crusty,
dyspeptic,
splenetic,
liverish,
short-tempered,
hot-tempered,
quick-tempered,
choleric,
snappish,
snappy,
chippy,
grouchy,
cranky,
on a short fuse,
shirty,
narky,
ratty,
eggy,
like a bear with a sore head,
peckish,
soreheaded,
snaky,
miffy,
Origin:
late 16th century: probably from a variant of Scots tache ‘blotch, fault’, from Old French teche .
