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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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She insisted she was not in the least bit techy and was able to build her company after a lot of sleepless nights, research and "bugging people" who know about tech.

From BBC Dec. 14, 2025

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

From Seattle Times Feb. 17, 2023

Long exposition and new techy lore stuffed into stretches of talky, cerebral scenes with a runtime that’s already pushing 2 1/2 hours isn’t for every moviegoer.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 27, 2021

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

From The Verge Nov. 9, 2021

Bet th' captain is as techy as a teased snake every time he thinks 'bout you two.

From Rebel Spurs by Norton, Andre

But even before the modern internet came to be, techies and sci-fi writers were already imagining what the web was going to look like.

From Salon Jun. 8, 2026

Tools in a newer, more general category of so-called desktop agents have begun to gain traction among techies.

From Barron's Mar. 13, 2026

Before starting Lucy, Coogan co-founded Soylent, the liquid meal replacement of choice for techies a decade ago that was widely satirized in pop culture.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 31, 2025

Lee wasn’t living in San Francisco at the time, having decamped for Miami like so many other techies.

From Slate Aug. 15, 2025

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 Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley)

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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