"easily irritated," 1592, teachie, in "Romeo & Juliet" I.iii.32; of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle English tatch "a mark, quality," derived via Old French from Vulgar Latin *tecca, from a Germanic source akin to Old English tacen (see token).
雙語例句
1. He was in a particularly tetchy mood yesterday.
昨天他脾氣特別不好。
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2. You always get tetchy when you're hungry.
你一餓的時(shí)候火氣就大。
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3. She can be a bit tetchy but her bark is worse than her bite.
她脾氣可能有點(diǎn)暴躁，但她是刀子嘴，豆腐心。
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4. But relations between America and Britain in Afghanistan have been tetchy.