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tachy

tachy is the alternative form of tetchy.

Noun

tachy

  1. (colloquial) Tachycardia.
  2. (colloquial) Tachypnoea.

Meaning of tetchy

Adjective

tetchy (comparative tetchier, superlative tetchiest)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, Southern US, UK) Synonym of touchy: easily annoyed or irritated, peevish, testy, irascible; also (figurative) extremely sensitive, difficult to manage, use, or work.
    • 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...c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    Synonyms:
    touchy

Adjective

tachy (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) Tachycardic.

Origin of tachy

Variant of tetchy, of uncertain origin.

Clipping of terms prefixed with tachy-.

Words formed from tachy

Questions about tachy

What does tachy mean?
Tachy means tachycardia.
What is tachy the alternative form of?
Tachy is the alternative form of tetchy.
What part of speech is tachy?
Tachy can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near tachy in the dictionary

  1. tachrichim
  2. tachs
  3. tachs up
  4. tachuri
  5. tachuris
  6. tachy
  7. tachy-
  8. tachyarrhythmia
  9. tachyarrhythmias
  10. tachyarrhythmic
  11. tachyarrythmia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tachy (page history and authors); tetchy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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