What's the difference between nettlesome and techy?
Nettlesome
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Techy
Definition:
(a.) Peevish; fretful; irritable.
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(1) Sometimes men launch these attacks on each other, hack each other in displays of techie braggadocio, but it is essentially yet another unwanted cost of being female.
(2) I don’t mind that.” He bore no hostility to techies.
(3) Yet RBN was founded and is run by techies, not career criminals.
(4) Hell hath no fury like a mad techie scorned and, once the bill had passed, attention shifted to listing MPs who had vote no, or not voted at all – particularly those in marginal seats such as Glenda Jackson and Frank Dobson.
(5) But smartwatches have also suffered because of their techie appearance, failing to appeal to consumers who prefer watches as jewellery.
(6) I have been told in the past that it works better using a Chrome browser than Firefox, if you want to be all techy about it.
(7) This is an issue that falls uneasily between his band of greenies, whose main job is to look after the countryside, and the techies at the business department whose job, under Lord Mandelson, is to drive forward British business.
(8) "For a lot of the Russian techies [crime] became very lucrative," says Dr Mark Galeotti, director of the Organised Russian and Eurasian Crime Research Unit at Keele University.
(9) A few years ago Thiel told associates that he saw promise in young entrepreneur Cody Wilson, a self-described antiestablishment techie working on a project to make bitcoin untraceable for authorities.
(10) Their second disadvantage was even more critical: the Winklevii weren't techies, and so had no real insight into the technology and its possibilities.
(11) The campaign does not necessarily need thousands of techies to call its new initiative a success – just one or two great ideas could turbo charge the Obama campaign's already well-fueled machine, as was the case with the 2008 election.
(12) I want the techies to see that.” For Seymour, and many others here, that is an urgent mission.
(13) This is all the more remarkable given a huge increase in red tape: in 2014 Ed Techie estimated a 58% increase in legislation affecting universities over the past 20 years.
(14) Iron Man was always the most rock’n’roll of the Marvel superhero crew, but after almost destroying the world with his techy meddling in Avengers: Age of Ultron , it’s clear he’s lost his taste for unilateral action.
(15) OpenStreetMaps is itself at a turning point as it tries to progress from a techie-driven project to one that the ordinary consumer can not only understand but contribute to as well.
(16) Certainly, Bitcoin's future as a serious currency was of more interest to the techies at last Tuesday's conference, albeit as part of a series of presentations that made the whole scheme feel like it is still an academic debating point.
(17) Wearable technology = people continuing to look like idiots in public A continuation of the Google Glasshole trend of 2013, in which men put strange techy things on their faces and nearby women just try to pretend it's all not happening.
(18) She is West Yorkshire police cybercrime lead and when the job was created in 2015 she set out to round up top techies from across academia, specialist government departments and private industry.
(19) The problem of white supremacy in America can’t be fixed with more cops or a techie band-aid like body cams on cops; it is, at its root, a problem with spiritual and societal causes.
(20) Photograph: Sophia Evans for the Observer Klein and Raz-Fridman, 30, an ex-intelligence officer for the Israel defence forces, thought they could use the Raspberry Pi's cheapness and open source software's flexibility to make computer coding easier for non-techy people: "for fun, and purpose".