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tetchy
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synonyms: irascible, umbrageous, furibund ???
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Definition:touchy; testy; easily irritated
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You are the sweetest temper in the world, but you are so tetchy with your brothers.” “Not tetchy, mamma: you never hear me speak in an unladylike way.”
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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