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Techy

Techy \Tech"y\, a. [From OE. tecche, tache, a habit, bad habit, vice, OF. tache, teche, a spot, stain, blemish, habit, vice, F. tache a spot, blemish; probably akin to E. tack a small nail. See Tack a small nail, and cf. Touchy.] Peevish; fretful; irritable.

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techy

Etymology 1 a. (context informal English) technical Etymology 2

a. (obsolete form of tetchy English)

WordNet
techy
  1. adj. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [syn: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, testy, tetchy]

  2. [also: techiest, techier]

Usage examples of "techy".

The techies had the laptop up and running, the cursor blinking on a line that awaited the necessary password.

When he finally returned to the back room, the techies were standing there anxiously awaiting him.

The techies might eventually match fiber from his clothes to one or more of the crime scenes, but Rudolph is unbelievably careful.

A half-dozen or so FBI techies and LAPD homicide detectives were still on the scene.

By the way, tell the techies to be precise when they zoom the plane back in.

Three figures stood against the darkness of the generator -Lockhart, Casolaro and Dreva, a young Prevail techy and strongarm.

But they were paying a lot of money to the straight Dagwood Bumstead techies, some of them working for the FCIC, to search for traces of intrusion.

Mission Control room lit up like a navigational display, as exhausted techies booted up their consoles to the flashing of alarms.

The techies might eventually match fiber from his clothes to one or more of the crime scenes, but Rudolph is unbelievably careful.

A half-dozen or so FBI techies and LAPD homicide detectives were still on the scene.

All technical devices require documentation of a sort, but this stuff can only be written by the techies who are doing the actual product development, and they absolutely hate it, always put the dox question off to the very last minute.

It's the old Rainbow Coalition again, plus the techies, with a real honest-to-god Indian scientist hero to be their figurehead!