tetched
Adjective
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Adjective
tetched
- (chiefly, US, colloquial) Touched: mildly deranged, somewhat mentally dysfunctional.
- 1959 April 21, Ann Landers, "[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CYtIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7nYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6136,119730&dq=tetched&hl=en Oh Why Can't He See 'Dawn's Early Light'?], St. Petersburg Times (USA) (retrieved 26 June 2012):
- Just because he has trouble with the last verse of the Star Spangled Banner doesn't mean he's tetched. Maybe he has a mental block because you've been hammering him over the skull for three years about it.
- 1982 Sep. 27, Mary Cantwell, "Books Of The Times ↗" (review of Goosefoot by Patrick McGinley), New York Times (retrieved 26 June 2012):
- There's a murderer about, but how can you spot him when everyone is moon-tetched?
- 1959 April 21, Ann Landers, "[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CYtIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7nYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6136,119730&dq=tetched&hl=en Oh Why Can't He See 'Dawn's Early Light'?], St. Petersburg Times (USA) (retrieved 26 June 2012):
- (chiefly, US, colloquial) Touched: physically contacted, impacted, or handled.
- 1899, Bret Harte, "Dick Spindler's Family Christmas" in Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories:
- "They ain't bin tetched or handled by any one but the Kempany's agents."
- circa 1900 O. Henry, "The Reformation Of Calliope":
- "That bullet never tetched ye!"
- 1899, Bret Harte, "Dick Spindler's Family Christmas" in Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories:
- (mildly deranged) touched in the head
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