crustiness, sharpness, asperity, tartness, acerbity; resentfulness, chip on the shoulder, fractiousness, captiousness, querulousness, contentiousness,
testy, adj. touchy, irritable, tetchy, snappish, petulant, irascible; peevish, huffish, waspish, raspy, peppery, fretful; huffy, edgy, on edge; grumpy, cranky, grouchy, snarling, crotchety, churlish, bearish; gruff, cantankerous, impatient, crabby; splenetic, choleric, dyspeptic, moody, sullen, temperamental, out of sorts; cross, crusty, crabbed, ill-tempered, ill-humored; excitable, fiery, inflammable, hasty, quick, trigger- happy; high-strung, hot-tempered, hot-blooded, thinskinned, quick-tempered; sharp, sharp-tongued, tart, acerbic; fractious, quarrelsome, querulous, contentious, resentful, captious; currish, shrewish, vixenish.
t£te-A-t£te, n. 1. private conversation, pillow talk, talk, dialogue, duologue, interview; chat, coze, causerie, confabulation, Inf. confab, discussion, SI. rap, SI. schmooze.
-adv. 2. in private, privately, behind closed doors, Law. in camera, secretly, in secret; confidentially, en-tre nous; vis-&-vis, face-to-face, side by side,
tether, n. 1. cord, chain, rope, tie, thong, line,
lead, leash.
2. supply line, cable, connection, link, Anat. umbilical cord.
-v. 3. tie or tie up, chain, rope, bind, lash, leash, fasten, secure, stake, picket,
text, n. 1. matter, contents, body, main body, subject matter, printed matter; words, context, wording, wordage, phrasing, choice of words.
2. subject, theme, topic, motif; concern, focus, point, issue, case, idea, question; gist, essence, meat, substance.
3. textbook, reference book, manual, primer, hornbook, schoolbook; grammar, reader, speller, workbook, exercise book.
texture, n. 1. weave, weaving, nap, pile, tissue, fabric; grain, surface, make, denier, feel, touch, granulation; fiber, woof, warp and woof, tooth; contexture, intertexture, crossing, intertwinement, interlacement; mesh, net, web, meshwork, network, web-work; weft, cloth, stuff, warpage, weftage.
2. structure, build, frame, make; make-up, constitution, composition, arrangement, organization; fabrication, formation, set-up, Inf. get-up, format.
thank, v. 1. acknowledge, be grateful, give thanks, offer thanks, show one's appreciation, tender thanks; recognize, credit; appreciate, tip, requite, reward, return; repay, recompense, return a favor.
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2. thanks acknowledgement, credit, cognizance, recognition; thanksgiving, hearty thanks, grace, grace before or after meals, Brit, grace before or after meat; benediction, paean, hymn, praises, Te Deum, tribute; reward, recompense, requital, tip, thank-offering.
3. thanks thank you,
I thank you, many thanks, much obliged, much appreciated, I appreciate it, Obs. gramercy; thank you kindly, Chiefly Dial, thankee, Brit. SI. ta; Fr. merci, Fr. merci bien or beaucoup, Ger. danke, Ger. danke sch 'dn, Sp. gracias, It. grazie, Russ, spasibo.
4. thanks to owing to, because of, due to, due to the fact that; by reason of, as a result of, as, through, since.
thankful, adj. grateful, appreciative, obliged; indebted, beholden, under obligation; mindful, grati fied, pleased, contented; blessing, praising,
thankfulness, n. gratitude, gratefulness, appreciation, appreciativeness, thanks; sense of obligation, beholdenness, obligedness, indebtedness; regard, re-