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Definition of Peevish

Peevish
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. --Shak. 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. --Shak. Syn: Querulous; petulant; cross; ill-tempered; testy; captious; discontented. See Fretful.

Meaning of Peevish from wikipedia

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- Bennett: A puzzling British exclamation" World Wide Words "Gordon Bennett!". Peevish.co.uk. Retrieved 8 September 2017. "Gordon Bennett! – the meaning and origin...
- in the twentieth century, derived by back-formation from the adjective peevish, meaning "ornery or ill-tempered", which dates from the late 14th-century...
- Lyall, Sarah (August 26, 1992). "At Dinner With: Rob Morrow – He's No Peevish Dr. Fleischman, But He's at Home in Bagel Town". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331...
- Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States. delectatio morosa peevish delight In Catholic theology, pleasure taken in a sinful thought or imagination...
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- and wrawnesse, the last variously translated as "anger" or better as "peevishness". For Chaucer, human's sin consists of languishing and holding back,...
- by his education and Scottish upbringing, and he dealt shortly with the peevish legacy of Elizabethan Puritanism, pursuing an eirenic religious policy...
- that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism." However, he remained an outspoken critic of the...
- stated that "[t]he way Kroll savors every syllable of his alternately peevish, self-pitying and nonsensical dialogue—aided mightily by the animators...