What's the difference between techy and tetchy?

Techy


Definition:

  • (a.) Peevish; fretful; irritable.

Example Sentences:

  • (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".

Tetchy


Definition:

  • (a.) See Techy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After a marathon of tetchy bilateral talks and barbed plenary speeches, the Chinese premier – who refused to enter the negotiations directly – flew back to Beijing without any public comment.
  • (2) It didn't look as if that was quite how he remembered it, but May pressed on, becoming ever more tetchy.
  • (3) Simon Walters, the political editor of the Mail on Sunday and co-author of the 17 June story, will appear before Leveson on Monday afternoon, raising the prospect of tetchy exchanges with the judge.
  • (4) And yet Dame Eileen's tetchy objection that casting middle-aged men as girls is not authentic kept coming to me as I braved the heat and seats at the Wanamaker.
  • (5) They are better than that team out there today, that’s the problem.” But a tetchy Van Gaal was in no mood to tolerate the opinions of a successful former generation.
  • (6) In a tetchy BBC Question Time encounter with Ukip’s Nigel Farage , it was Brand who produced the zinger, with the jibe that his opponent was “a pound-shop Enoch Powell ”.
  • (7) Hunt was emollient and calm, becoming tetchy only when challenged over the issue of GP contracts.
  • (8) The architect Zaha Hadid cut short a tetchy BBC radio interview to mark her being awarded the 2016 Riba Royal Gold Medal after mounting an angry defence of her Qatar World Cup stadium and Tokyo Olympic stadium projects.
  • (9) As the world's second- and third-biggest oil consumers, they are also rivals for energy, which has led to tetchy rows over a Siberian oil pipeline and gas fields in the South China Sea.
  • (10) But it became a rambling, often tetchy performance from Putin, repeatedly scolding journalists for failing to understand him, or for leaving their mobile phones on.
  • (11) Abbott is already trying to calm his friends on the right, tetchy at Turnbull’s profile and Abbott’s continuing low poll ratings.
  • (12) It's a fair enough decision I guess, but this hasn't been a tetchy game, I wonder whether there was a need to get the cards out there.
  • (13) But in one of a number of tetchy exchanges between the pair, Hodge declared herself “very sceptical about that”.
  • (14) In increasingly tetchy exchange, Myners says that the Co-op was paying a dividend worth £1bn in today's money.
  • (15) The media got into crisis mode, naturally, but we were never really tetchy: there was no hunt for Those Responsible, as one suspects there will be if things get really dry this time around.
  • (16) There was the truculent Ray Donovan, featuring Jon Voight; the truculent Luck, starring Dustin Hoffman as an absurdly tetchy racetrack gambler and gangster, involving much mumbling in half-lit rooms; and there was the truculent Boss, starring Kelsey Grammer as a corrupt Chicago mayor, which never quite escaped the stigma of expecting Niles Crane to burst into the room in a flap about missing his appointment to visit the newly opened downtown doll museum.
  • (17) New York Republican Lee Zeldin said: “There is another alternative other than war; it’s a better deal ... America got played like a five string quartet.” Like a Senate version last week , the lengthy hearing got increasingly tetchy, with both sides frequently interrupting each other, and Kerry – who entered on crutches after breaking his leg cycling – was forced to stand and stretch at times.
  • (18) Mantel added: “As for ex-politicians who have weighed in: the same tetchy commentators who made fools of themselves when my stories were first published have been persuaded to do it again.
  • (19) They - and Labour - should also worry about a feeling that can be picked up all over this constituency: that the tetchy disconnection from politics that went nuclear with the expenses crisis, was probably perpetuated by the very public fall of Chris Huhne, and shows no signs of going away, least of all round here.
  • (20) The chief executive, who has faced a campaign from some newspapers to step down following the publication of the report into serious failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS foundation trust , endured a long, tetchy grilling two weeks ago from the Commons health committee.

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