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▪ I. tetch Now only dial.|tɛtʃ|
Also 7 tech.
[Origin uncertain: see tetchy.]
A fit of petulance or anger; a tantrum.
1642Rogers Naaman 98, I mean not that such a tech as Naaman took here, may do it. Ibid. 143 An offer..which thou biddest faire for and forsookest at last in a tech. Ibid. 379 Meer tetches and pritches, very toyes and conceits, can alienate their love. a1734North Lives, Ld. Guilford (1826) II. 218 But this frantic fellow took tetch at somewhat, and ran away into Ireland. 1876J. Richardson Cummerland Talk Ser. ii. 73 Nater began to tak t' tetch wid him, an' wadden't be meàd ghem on enny langer.
¶1623Cockeram, Tetch, thriftinesse. (App. a mistake.)
▪ II. tetch(e
obs. forms of tache n.1, n.3 |