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Webster 1913 Edition


Tetchiness

Tetch′i-ness

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Noun.
See
Techiness
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Webster 1828 Edition


Tetchiness

TETCH'INESS


Definition 2024


tetchiness

tetchiness

English

Noun

tetchiness (usually uncountable, plural tetchinesses)

  1. The quality of being tetchy, or irritable
    • 2009, January 18, “Charles Isherwood”, in Hedda Forever: An Antiheroine for the Ages:
      Through it all she exudes tetchiness, weariness and a general contempt for everything in sight.

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