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teatish

teatish is the alternative form of tettish.

Meaning of tettish

Adjective

tettish (comparative more tettish, superlative most tettish)

  1. (obsolete) nitpicky or testy
    • He's the most tettish knavec. 1614, John Fletcher, “Wit Without Money, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii

Forms of teatish

comparativemore teatish
superlativemost teatish

Questions about teatish

What is teatish the alternative form of?
Teatish is the alternative form of tettish.

Words near teatish in the dictionary

  1. teathes
  2. teathing
  3. Teaticket
  4. teatime
  5. teatimes
  6. teatish
  7. teatless
  8. teatlike
  9. teatowel
  10. teatowels
  11. teatox

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Adapted from Wiktionary: teatish (page history and authors); tettish (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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