Meaning & use
Techy
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Knowledgeable about or enthusiastic about technology; informally, having strong technical skills or interests.
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Their techy neighbor rewired the whole house's smart lighting system in an afternoon.
The startup was looking for a techy co-founder who could build the app from scratch.
A note on using this word
'Techy' is an informal clipping of 'technical' or 'technology,' and should not be confused with 'tetchy,' an older word meaning irritable, which it closely resembles in sound.
Words with a similar meaning
tech-savvygeeky
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