tetty

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Pronunciation

Adjective

tetty (comparative more tetty, superlative most tetty)

  1. (obsolete) testy; irritable
    • 1624, Democritus Junior , The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      they are so cholerick and tetty, that no man may speak with them, and break many times into violent passions, oaths, imprecations, and unbeseeming speeches

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tetty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Noun

tetty (plural tetties)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of tatty (“potato”).
    • 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:
      Hardly had he stooped to pick up his pipe when a great black and white hound crashed through the hedge and ran over his tetties and sun-dried shallots, followed by three more hounds, and after them a couple, and then his garden was filled with them.
  2. Pronunciation spelling of titty (“breast”).
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