tetchy
adjective /ˈtetʃi/
/ˈtetʃi/
(informal)- easily annoyed
synonym irritable易怒的;暴躁的;动辄发怒的 - He sounded tetchy when I asked him where he’d been.
当我问他去哪里时,他听起来很生气。
词源late 16th cent.: probably from a variant of Scots tache ‘blotch, fault’, from Old French teche. - He sounded tetchy when I asked him where he’d been.