Category:Peevish

Pee"vish, a. Etym: [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.