titchy, adj. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

titchy adj.

[according to OED from ‘The stage name Little Tich of the dwarfish music-hall comedian Harry Relph (1868–1928), who was given the nickname as a child because of a resemblance to the Tichborne claimant.’ The claimant was Arthur Orton (1834–98), who claimed in 1866 to be Roger Charles Tichborne (1829–54), the heir to an English baronetcy, who was lost at sea. Orton was finally discredited and imprisoned in 1874]

(mainly juv.) small, tiny, undersized.

1950		A. Buckeridge Jennings Goes To School 216: Who’s frightened of a titchy little incey-wincey spider?
1962		K. Waterhouse There is a Happy Land (1964) 59: He was only a little titchy kid.
1999		Guardian Travel 28 Aug. 4: First-time visitors think Lakeland is titchy.
2000		Indep. Rev. 29 Mar. 4: Surrounded by those titchy plates.
2003		N. Griffiths Stump 58: — But it’s [i.e. a shop] titchy. There’ll be fuck all there.