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"Easily irritated"2 answers
testy5 letterstetchy6 letters
Filled answer is this word (TETCHY).
Definitions
easily irritated or annoyed
Word origin
Also variously derived from English tetch (“tantrum, fit of anger”); from Scots tache (“blotch, fault”); from Middle English tatch (“blemish”) &c. under influence from touchy.
Used in a sentence
“Nurce: ...But as I said, when it did tast the wormwood on the nipple of my dug, & felt it bitter, pretty foole to see it teachie and fall out with Dugge...”
“Nurse: […]But as I said, when it did taste the worme-wood on the nipple of my dug, and felt it bitter, pretie foole, to see it teachie and fall out with the Dugge...”
“Our hart is so narrowly limited that (by euery little distaste) we are strangely altered, and being in this teasty tetchy way, presently we let flye foorth much vnseemelines.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Easily irritated”6 letters
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