Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Peevish; fretful; irritable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Peevish; fretful; irritable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Obsolete form of
tetchy . - adjective informal
technical
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective easily irritated or annoyed
Etymologies
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Examples
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Luckily you don’t have to create the Lifehacker-only search if you don’t want to, as the extension already includes a custom search using the keyword techy that searches only Lifehacker, CyberNet, and Download Squad.
CyberSearch Integrates Search Results with Your AwesomeBar | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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And having recently joined Facebook, that kind of techy interaction can lead to more "real" socializing and contact, because you don't lose track of people.
Has technology extinguished both true solitude and real social life? Ann Althouse 2009
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Even without opening any of the links, it's easy to surmise that a widget is currently used to describe some kind of techy add-on feature for Web sites.
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I don't know what the demographics are but if users use "techy" sites they will no doubt use firefox or similar, and they are most likely to use the power of the "new tab".
Influentials On The Web Are People With The Power To Link - Publishing 2.0 2008
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Surely one of your 'techy' readers could put a little 'YouTube' film of her together to the soundtrack of the lovely Beyonce with 'HIPS don't lie' well, maybe they do..
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I am here to help if you run into a snag (or prefer not to do the "techy" stuff).
Digital Point Forums 2009
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I consider myself to be a "techy" in some ways, but I am in my 20s and do not have a huge budget.
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I'm not usually a fan of tag clouds as they are too "techy" but in this case it works well.
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Sounded very "techy" wasting time speaking of tech ends than rather speaking of keypoints and highlighting what the general press cares to here ..... which are main points that differ from the competition and todays attention to "software".
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The colour palette of the new brand is dull and I. T 'techy'.
Brand New 2009
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