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tetchy

 (adj): easily irritated or annoyed
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10 months ago hekate101 said:

From the verb 'tetch', a variant of the Yiddish 'kvetch'.

10 months ago siddharthsoni said:

Wonder about the origin... Something similar to itchy, I presume.

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