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tettish

tettish adjective: nitpicky or testy.

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
    • And thou the selfsame Galate art more tettish for to frame
      Than Oxen of the wildernesse whom never wyght did tame.1567, Ovid, “(please specify the book number or chapter)”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC

Forms of tettish

comparativemore tettish
superlativemost tettish
alternative formteatish

Origin of tettish

Compare testy.

Questions about tettish

What does tettish mean?
Tettish means nitpicky or testy.
What part of speech is tettish?
Tettish is an adjective.

Words near tettish in the dictionary

  1. tettigonids
  2. tettigoniid
  3. tettigoniids
  4. tettigonioid
  5. tettigonioids
  6. tettish
  7. tettix
  8. tettixes
  9. tetty
  10. Tetum
  11. Tetyana

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