tetchedadj.
/tɛtʃt/ U.S. regional and colloquial.
Mentally deranged to a slight degree; somewhat mad, crazy, or ‘cracked’; = touched adj. 3.
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maddish1573
skyred1581
cracked1610
conundrumed1629
touchy-headed1666
touched1672
half-witted1712
maddy1719
Fifish1821
cracky1850
not all there1864
mattoid1891
tetched1930
as daft (mad, etc.) as a brush1932
1930–41 in H. Wentworth Amer. Dial. Dict. (1944) 657/1.
1983 C. McCarry Last Supper iii. vi. 333 These people are tetched in the head.
1984 S. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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adj.1930