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peevish 音標拼音: [p'ivɪʃ] a. 易怒的,暴躁的,撒嬌的 易怒的,暴躁的,撒嬌的 peevish adj 1: easily irritated or annoyed; " an incorrigibly fractious young man"; " not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [ synonym: { cranky}, { fractious}, { irritable}, { nettlesome}, { peevish}, { peckish}, { pettish}, { petulant}, { scratchy}, { testy}, { tetchy}, { techy}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] She is peevish, sullen, froward. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Silly; childish; trifling. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] To send such peevish tokens to a king. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Querulous; petulant; cross; ill- tempered; testy; captious; discontented. See { Fretful}. [ 1913 Webster] 92 Moby Thesaurus words for " peevish": Jeremianic, acrimonious, bad- tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bilious, bitching, cantankerous, captious, carping, catty, caviling, cavilling, churlish, complaining, complaintful, crabbed, crabbing, crabby, cranky, critical, croaking, cross, crotchety, crusty, disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, envious, faultfinding, fractious, fretful, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling, grumpish, grumpy, howling, huffy, ill- humored, ill- natured, ill- tempered, irritable, lamentive, malcontent, malcontented, moanful, mournful, murmuring, muttering, nagging, naggy, out of humor, pettish, petulant, plaintive, plangent, puling, querulant, querulous, rebellious, resentful, restive, restless, short- tempered, shrewish, snappish, sorrowful, splenetic, sulky, testy, tetchy, touchy, ululant, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unsatisfied, vixenish, vixenly, wailful, waspish, whimpering, whining, whiny
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