Definition of peevish

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Peevish (a.) Silly; childish; trifling.

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Squabble :: Squabble (v. i.) To debate peevishly; to dispute.
Ill-tempered :: Ill-tempered (a.) Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.
Attercop :: Attercop (n.) A peevish, ill-natured person..
Peevish :: Peevish (a.) Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
Shrewish :: Shrewish (a.) having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.
Sour :: Sour (superl.) Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply..
Vapory :: Vapory (a.) Hypochondriacal; splenetic; peevish.
Wrangle :: Wrangle (v. i.) To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate.
Curstness :: Curstness (n.) Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness.
Froppish :: Froppish (a.) Peevish; froward.
Curstfully :: Curstfully (adv.) Peevishly; vexatiously; detestably.
Tiff :: Tiff (n.) A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift.
Crossness :: Crossness (n.) The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.
Moody :: Moody (superl.) Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy..
Froward :: Froward (a.) Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child..
Wrawness :: Wrawness (n.) Peevishness; ill temper; anger.
Wrangler :: Wrangler (n.) An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness.
Peevish :: Peevish (a.) Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer..
Teeny :: Teeny (a.) Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross.
Petulancy :: Petulancy (n.) The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.
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