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tetched, pa. pple. and ppl. a.|tɛtʃt| U.S. dial. and colloq. var. of touched (see touch v. 23 b); mentally deranged to a slight degree; somewhat mad, crazy, or ‘cracked’.
1930–41in H. Wentworth Amer. Dial. Dict. (1944) 657/1. 1983 C. McCarry Last Supper iii. vi. 333 These people are tetched in the head. 1984S. Bellow Him with his Foot in his Mouth 39 If she had been a little tetched before, melodramatic, in her fifties she seemed to become crazed. |