LekhoriLekhoriConstantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters; fretful, whiny.
Due to the long wait, there were several peevish patients in the doctor’s waiting room.
Quick to become bad-tempered or cross, especially due to insignificant matters; irritable, pettish, petulant.
I would rather figure things out on my own than ask that peevish librarian for help.
Of weather: blustery, windy; also, of wind: cold and strong; bitter, sharp.
Serene he bears the peeviſh eaſtern blaſt, / And uninfected breaths the mortal South.
Synonym of peevishly (“in a peevish manner: whiningly; irritably, petulantly; etc.”).
She was not halfe so wyse / As she was peuysshe nyse.
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English pievish, peuysche, pevish, pevysh (“capricious, wilful; perverse, wayward”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from one of the following: * From a...
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