teety, tetty, a. Now dial.
Also 9 teaty, (tedy).
[Of obscure origin: cf. teethy a.1]
(See quots.)
| 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. xiii. (1651) 119 They are so cholerick and tetty that no man may speak with them. 1787 Grose Provinc. Gloss., Teety, fretful, fractious. 1809 T. Donaldson Poems 170 I'd be as tedy as a child. 1855 Robinson Whitby Gloss., Teaty or Tutty, easily offended, testy or touchy. |