peevish

[pee·vish]

When you're peevish, you're easily irritated and grumpy. Everything seems to get under your skin.

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Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.

Adjective S.
easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"


a.
Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.

a.
Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.

a.
Silly; childish; trifling.


Peevish

Pee"vish , a. [OE. pevische; of uncertain origin, perh. from a word imitative of the noise made by fretful children + -ish.] 1. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." Wordsworth.
She is peevish, sullen, froward.
2. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer. 3. Silly; childish; trifling. [Obs.]
To send such peevish tokens to a king.
Syn. -- Querulous; petulant; cross; ill-tempered; testy; captious; discontented. See Fretful.

Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.

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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

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