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the mood where existing feels like a personal attack from everyone, including furniture.
means Irritable and easily annoyed, quick to take offense over small things.
from A variant of the older 'techy,' meaning touchy or peevish — itself likely from 'tetch,' a dialect noun for a habit, fit, or bad mood, possibly related to 'touched' (as in mentally affected) or to the verb 'touch' in the sense of being too easily reached. The spelling with the extra letters settled in over the centuries, but the core idea has always been someone whose temper sits close to the surface, just one small poke away from going off.
- origin
- From archaic tetch, meaning a fault or bad habit
- cousins
- Sibling to touchy, testy, and chronically unbothered's enemy
- hair trigger
- Describes people one wrong word from combustion
- era
- In use since the 1590s, peak Shakespeare grump
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