† tettish, teatish, a. Obs.
[Origin of radical part tet or teat obscure: see also teety a.]
Peevish, irritable, fretful.
| 1567 Golding Ovid's Met. xiii. (1575) 172 And thou the selfsame Galate art more tettish for to frame, Than Oxen of the wildernesse whom neuer wyght did tame. 1592 Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 16 Hee is an olde man (for those yeares are most wayward and teatish). a 1619 Fletcher Wit without M. v. ii, This Rogue, if he had been sober, sure had beaten me, is the most tettish Knave. 1621 ― Pilgrim i. i, Who will be troubled with a tettish girl? a 1625 ― Woman's Prize v. i, Her sicknesse Has made her somewhat teatish. |