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.
