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1. (adj.) peevish
cross, querulous, or fretful.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME pevysh, of obscure orig.)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy
easily irritated or annoyed
"an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
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1. (adj) peevish
habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant
2. (adj) peevish
expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer
3. (adj) peevish
silly; childish; trifling
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Sense: easily made angry; irritable; frequently complaining
a peevish old man.
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 Afrikaans: stuurs |
 Arabic: شَكِس، سَريع الغَضَب والش |
 Bulgarian: раздразнителен |
 Brazilian: irritável |
 Czech: mrzutý |
 German: verdrießlich |
 Danish: pirrelig; irritabel |
 Greek: οξύθυμος, γκρινιάρης |
 Spanish: malhumorado |
 Estonian: pahur, tõre |
 Farsi: بهانه گیر؛ بد خلق |
 Finnish: äkäinen |
 French: grincheux |
 Hebrew: עֲצבַּנִי |
 Hindi: चिड़चिड़ा |
 Croatian: zlovoljan, razdražljiv |
 Hungarian: ingerlékeny |
 Indonesian: pemarah |
 Icelandic: rellinn, síkvartandi, erg |
 Italian: irritabile |
 Japanese: 気むずかしい |
 Korean: 성미 까다로운 |
 Lithuanian: irzlus |
 Latvian: īgns |
 Malay: perengus |
 Dutch: chagrijnig |
 Norwegian: irritabel, gretten |
 Polish: drażliwy |
 Persian: بهانه گیر؛ بد خلق |
 Pashto: ژرعصبي كيدونكى، هغه څوك چ |
 Portuguese: irritável |
 Romanian: supărăcios; ţâfnos |
 Russian: раздражительный, сварливы |
 Slovak: mrzutý |
 Slovenian: razdražljiv, siten |
 Serbian: svadljiv |
 Swedish: retlig, vresig |
 Thai: ซึ่งอารมณ์ร้าย |
 Turkish: huysuz, aksi |
 Taiwanese: 易怒的 |
 Ukrainian: сварливий; буркотливий |
 Urdu: چڑچڑا |
 Vietnamese: dễ cáu |
 Chinese: 易怒的 |
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