tetchy
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A version of this review appears in print on January 30, 2014, on page C4 of the with the headline: Wry Hybrid Of Debonair And Tetchy.
From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2014
Touchy, which now conveys the idea of sensitiveness to touch, is corrupted from tetchy— "Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy."
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
"Cream, too, no doubt!" added Tetchy himself, in a tone so insulting that I thought it unworthy of one calling himself a man.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various
Miss Belinda Tetchy, notwithstanding her odd name, was quite a belle.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various
"Another strawberry-garden, I suppose!" exclaimed the daughter, Miss Annabella Tetchy, who had not yet had the good luck to change her ugly name.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various
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