I guess "tetchy" came in when they completely revised it.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: TITCHY.] Reference

I just have to hope that this kind of tetchy judicial questioning is the way they push the lawyers to make their best case.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gay Marriage Circus in Civic Center Plaza] Reference

` This better be worth it, 'came the tetchy reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fleshmarket Close]

Lib Dem relations with the media are getting tetchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberal Democrat conference live - Wednesday 22 September] Reference

This breathless night the sea is as tetchy as petrol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropic Days] Reference

"Feeling tough and tetchy this morning, hey, Talbot?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear is the Key]

I would have scored that tetchy opening round a draw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

“I cannot imagine you getting tetchy,” said Sarah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Dentist]

"It's a part," replied an increasingly tetchy Redknapp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamie Redknapp and Fabio Capello find English to be a grey area] Reference

The surveyor seemed tetchy and made no further comment.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Body In The Bath House]

Unless his mood improves, these may be tetchy exchanges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul O'Grady's socialist fury rant was a rare live-TV shock] Reference

Wow, talk aout tetchy, I might start to think I know you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man fined for flicking cigarette ash out of car window] Reference

He became irritable and tetchy and began to pick quarrels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Dentist]

He's almost tetchy on the subject of bloggers as journalists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swift boat veterans for Prescott !] Reference

Stop being so tetchy--you're just making everyone mad at you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nelson] Reference

Anyone can get dog tired and tetchy after an exhausting election.    From Wordnik.com.  [So Boulton lost it. Ofcom should just cool it] Reference

People must have said Caesius should do the same; he looked tetchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [See Delphi and Die]

Or enjoy, read, and go - I know how those tetchy bladders can be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

Anyone can get tired and tetchy and take a pop at Alastair Campbell.    From Wordnik.com.  [So Boulton lost it. Ofcom should just cool it] Reference

I am a tetchy man; I am an old man, too, though but just past thirty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference

General Crook gets tetchy as a teased snake if he runs low on ammunition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Shadow]

We could be reading this wrong, but it seems like Laura's getting tetchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [04.04] Reference

While civil war looms in Oz, a tetchy oracle named Yackle prepares for death.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire: Book summary] Reference

Thomas Orde-Lees irritated everyone, they said he was meanspirited and tetchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terra Incognita]

I'm sore, very sore and can't take my pain relief as my stomach is being tetchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Blogger, knitting and so forth] Reference

Too much tetchy prejudice was rampaging through this group of exhausted travellers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Body In The Bath House]

I think it is a fantastic idea but, frankly, it made me a bit tetchy on first blush.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crazy Martha Shippers vs. People Who Ship Martha Like Crazy] Reference

'Maybe she'd be less tetchy and tearful if she knew a bit more about what's going on.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Eagles Dare]

And that makes them so tetchy and sensitive to the slightest change in the set pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pinaki Bhattacharya: Indian Elite's Existential Angst] Reference

Although I'm told North Norfolk Radio asked him about it on Friday and he got very tetchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Day on the Doorstep] Reference

Burton was growing tetchy but seemed genuinely puzzled: he really didn't seem to comprehend.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Taste for Burning]

And you imagine that both Labour and the Tories will remain tetchy about this problematic issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [There could be a pay freeze, after all] Reference

Bloated and knackered, looking like a crimson bull-frog, he was tetchy and uncertain in the chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

I wasn't restless or tetchy; I just kept thinking very clearly, and I wanted to write it all down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: My Experiment With Smart Drugs] Reference

David Cameron was urged by his advisers to show more passion this week, but his efforts often made him seem tetchy instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Debate: Experts' Scorecard] Reference

It was time to resume contact with my family before they became tetchy being polite to the envoy, while I was out enjoying myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two For The Lions]

At the bark of the relieving guard, zu Pfeiffer rose and walked around the house to watch, with tetchy eyes, the saluting of the flag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference