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tetchier

  • 1 admitirlo

    (v.) = come out with + it
    Ex. As we talked he grew tetchier and tetchier, and finally came out with it.
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    (v.) = come out with + it

    Ex: As we talked he grew tetchier and tetchier, and finally came out with it.

    Spanish-English dictionary > admitirlo

  • 2 confesarlo

    (v.) = come out with + it
    Ex. As we talked he grew tetchier and tetchier, and finally came out with it.
    * * *
    (v.) = come out with + it

    Ex: As we talked he grew tetchier and tetchier, and finally came out with it.

    Spanish-English dictionary > confesarlo

  • 3 decirlo

    (v.) = come out with + it
    Ex. As we talked he grew tetchier and tetchier, and finally came out with it.
    * * *
    (v.) = come out with + it

    Ex: As we talked he grew tetchier and tetchier, and finally came out with it.

    Spanish-English dictionary > decirlo

  • 4 irascible

    adj.
    1 irascible.
    2 angry, crabby, gnarled, morose.
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    1 irascible, irritable
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    ADJ irascible frm
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    adjetivo irascible
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    = tetchy [tetchier -comp., tetchiest -sup.], peevish, irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], short, short-tempered, off-hand [offhand], ornery, waspish, explosive, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].
    Ex. CC uses this device in Literature, where authors are specified by their date of birth (though Ranganathan has a rather tetchy note about the difficulty of establishing this in some cases).
    Ex. In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.
    Ex. He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex. The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex. He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex. A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex. The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.
    Ex. My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex. But as you read this sentence, you cannot fail to hear his voice, cosy, waspish, inimitable.
    Ex. The explosive Cameron Shepherd then brought the Wallabies to within a point of France with the team's second try five minutes later.
    Ex. We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.
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    adjetivo irascible
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    = tetchy [tetchier -comp., tetchiest -sup.], peevish, irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], short, short-tempered, off-hand [offhand], ornery, waspish, explosive, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].

    Ex: CC uses this device in Literature, where authors are specified by their date of birth (though Ranganathan has a rather tetchy note about the difficulty of establishing this in some cases).

    Ex: In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.
    Ex: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex: He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex: A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex: The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.
    Ex: My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex: But as you read this sentence, you cannot fail to hear his voice, cosy, waspish, inimitable.
    Ex: The explosive Cameron Shepherd then brought the Wallabies to within a point of France with the team's second try five minutes later.
    Ex: We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.

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    irascible
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    irascible adjetivo irascible, irritable, short-tempered
    ' irascible' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    temperamental
    English:
    cantankerous
    - hot-headed
    - irascible
    - quicktempered
    - crusty
    - hot
    - quick
    - snappy
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    irascible
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    adj irascible
    * * *
    : irascible, irritable

    Spanish-English dictionary > irascible

  • 5 irritable

    adj.
    irritable.
    Ser colérico Be quick-tempered (different from Be angry=Estar colérico.)
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    1 irritable
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    adjetivo irritable
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    = tetchy [tetchier -comp., tetchiest -sup.], irritable, cranky [crankier -comp., crankiest -sup.], irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], waspish, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].
    Ex. CC uses this device in Literature, where authors are specified by their date of birth (though Ranganathan has a rather tetchy note about the difficulty of establishing this in some cases).
    Ex. Many librarians worry that the public, collective image of librarians is associated with the crone -- an older, single woman who is irritable and protective of her domain.
    Ex. For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.
    Ex. He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex. The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex. But as you read this sentence, you cannot fail to hear his voice, cosy, waspish, inimitable.
    Ex. We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.
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    adjetivo irritable
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    = tetchy [tetchier -comp., tetchiest -sup.], irritable, cranky [crankier -comp., crankiest -sup.], irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], waspish, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].

    Ex: CC uses this device in Literature, where authors are specified by their date of birth (though Ranganathan has a rather tetchy note about the difficulty of establishing this in some cases).

    Ex: Many librarians worry that the public, collective image of librarians is associated with the crone -- an older, single woman who is irritable and protective of her domain.
    Ex: For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.
    Ex: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex: But as you read this sentence, you cannot fail to hear his voice, cosy, waspish, inimitable.
    Ex: We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.

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    irritable
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    irritable adjetivo
    irritable
    ' irritable' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    irascible
    - enojadizo
    - enojón
    English:
    cantankerous
    - impatient
    - irritable
    - prickly
    - snappy
    - inclined
    - moody
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    irritable
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    adj irritable
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    : irritable

    Spanish-English dictionary > irritable

См. также в других словарях:

  • tetchier — tetch·y || tetʃɪ adj. irritable; moody …   English contemporary dictionary

  • tetchy — adjective (tetchier; est) Etymology: perhaps from obsolete tetch habit Date: 1592 irritably or peevishly sensitive ; touchy < the tetchy manner of two women living in the same house Elizabeth Taylor †1975 > • tetchily adverb • tetchiness noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • tetchy — tetchily, adv. tetchiness, n. /tech ee/, adj. tetchier, tetchiest. irritable; touchy. Also, techy. [1585 95; orig. uncert.; cf. TETCHED, Y1] * * * …   Universalium

  • tetchy — [[t]te̱tʃi[/t]] tetchier, tetchiest ADJ GRADED If you say that someone is tetchy, you mean they are bad tempered and likely to get angry suddenly without an obvious reason. [mainly BRIT, INFORMAL] You always get tetchy when you re hungry... He… …   English dictionary

  • tetchy — adjective (tetchier, tetchiest) irritable and bad tempered. Derivatives tetchily adverb tetchiness noun Origin C16: prob. from a var. of Scots tache blotch, fault , from OFr. teche …   English new terms dictionary

  • tetchy — UK [ˈtetʃɪ] / US adjective Word forms tetchy : adjective tetchy comparative tetchier superlative tetchiest old fashioned easily annoyed and likely to get angry quickly Derived words: tetchily adverb tetchiness noun uncountable …   English dictionary

  • tetchy — /ˈtɛtʃi/ (say techee) adjective (tetchier, tetchiest) irritable; touchy. Also, techy. {origin uncertain} –tetchily, adverb –tetchiness, noun …  

  • tetchy — [tech′ē] adj. tetchier, tetchiest [< LME teche, touchy, prob. < ME, a mark, quality < OFr, spot, mark < VL * tecca < Frank * tekka < * tēkan; akin to OE tacn,TOKEN] touchy; irritable; peevish tetchily adv. tetchiness n …   English World dictionary

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