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techy

1 American  
[tek-ee] / ˈtɛk i /

noun

  • techies
    plural
  1. a variant of techie.


techy 2 American  
[tech-ee] / ˈtɛtʃ i /

adjective

techier, techiest
  1. tetchy.


techy 1 British  
/ ˈtɛkɪ /

noun

  1. informal a variant spelling of techie

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

techy 2 British  
/ ˈtɛtʃɪ /

adjective

  1. a variant spelling of tetchy

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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This fall she starts as music director of the Ulster Orchestra, bringing innovation to techy Ireland.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

In some cases, getting more techy can help cut down on waste.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2023

The Mozilla Foundation has a useful website that lists all sorts of techy products with easy-to-read summaries of what's good and risky, with each of them.

From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2021

All right, that’s all for the techy stuff.

From The Verge ● Nov. 9, 2021

It's a pretty arcane branch of engineering, even for techy types.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau

So the techies came clean: They were building something powerful and dangerous, hardly fit for mass adoption.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

What this means is that well-versed techies can now download and modify this AI without approval from Meta.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

‘I don’t want to be one of the people automated out the workforce. I guess I have to be a techie. I hope I’m one of the techies they need.’

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

While some techies use the buzzy AI platform OpenClaw to help book flights or summarize news, one Silicon Valley startup tapped it to stand up a nearly fully autonomous software engineering team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

The cage was directly before the manor door, and the techies were securing a concussor seal to the surrounding wall.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

When I was growing up in Seattle in the 1990s, the city was shifting from the home of Nirvana and grunge music into a shinier, techier metropolis.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2025

Subscribe The timing of the announcement is particularly interesting because Conte’s podcast focuses on the techier side of creators.

From The Verge ● Nov. 11, 2021

The 44-pound Pivot Shuttle is the cutting-edge of e-bikes — lighter, techier, more efficient and pricier than most full-suspension e-mountain bikes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2018

In the public imagination, vaping — with its oversize, multipart manipulatable products — has become associated with a techier, dweebier slice of the population.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2018

"Wall, I swow, Belle," remarked the Clown, steadying himself and turning his bleary eyes on the closed door, "you be techier 'n a sp'ilt colt, ain't ye?"

From The Lady of Big Shanty by F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley) Smith

Automakers tend to put the techiest features in their priciest models, but buyers of those cars skew older and may be more likely to reject new technology, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Google case, seemingly relevant to only the techiest of techies, could have widespread implications for society’s relationship with dominant tech firms.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2020

Several of the techiest potential jurors were excluded from the panel, including an Apple employee, another from Google, and a man with over 120 patents.

From Reuters ● Aug. 10, 2012

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