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tetched

  [techt]
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–adjective
touched; slightly crazy.
Also, teched.

Origin:
1925–30; var. of touched; perh. repr. earlier tached (ME techyd) in the compounds (well-)tached, (evil-)tached having the (specified) quality or disposition (ME tach(e), tech(e) trait, spot, stain < OF tache spot (see tachism ) + -ed 3 )
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tetched also teched   (těcht)   
adj.   Informal
Somewhat unbalanced mentally; touched.

[Alteration (influenced by obsolete tached, of a given disposition) of touched.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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tetched 
1930, U.S. colloquial variant of touched in the sense of "slightly crazy" (see touch).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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