tetchy
- s easily irritated or annoyed
- The President who seemed a mite tetchy, as he often does when things aren't going well glowered: "I take the responsibility for making the decision.
- But their film teaming was, in its way, an ideal second marriage: a union of equals, each distinct and distinguished, blending without surrendering a jot of their tetchy .
- His lesser works--the sweaty, oversharing sexcursions Vox and The Fermata and his tetchy political rant Checkpoint--contain passages you could spend years trying to forget.