to tetch
1
9.9
To make someone annoyed or angry
- verb
- /tɛtʃ/
- Archaic
:
irritar
- You're just tetched.
Examples
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She must be tetched in the wool.
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TETCH ON PA:
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The loud noise from the construction site began to tetch my patience.
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Her constant chatter started to tetch him during the long car ride.
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If you keep interrupting, you will tetch everyone in the meeting.
Synonyms
2
9.8
To tease someone again and again with small mean remarks
is a general irritation not focused on repeated reproach
to nettle
vsto tetch
1
6.8
To annoy or upset someone in a way that feels sharp
is milder annoyance without the sharp or stinging quality
to peeve
vsto tetch
1
6.8
To make someone feel annoyed
is older and now rare rather than commonly used
Antonyms
How Annoying
to infuriate
30
5.0
30
5.0
to enrage
27
3.7
27
3.7
to exasperate
2
5.9
2
5.9
to irritate
57
2.9
57
2.9
to tetch
1
9.9
- Archaic
1
9.9
to annoy
144
1.0
144
1.0
to bother
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tetch was once used as a verb meaning to make someone annoyed, but this use is now rare. A helpful way to remember it is to think of touch: to 'tetch' someone is to 'touch' their temper and make them 'easily annoyed'.