pettish
1Pettish — Pet tish, a. [From {Pet}.] Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper. A pettish kind of humor. Sterne. {Pet tish*ly}, adv. {Pet tish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …
2pettish — index fractious, petulant, querulous Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
3pettish — 1550s, “impetuous,” evidently from PET (Cf. pet) in some sense + ISH (Cf. ish). Meaning “peevish, easily annoyed” is from 1590s. It has naturally been assoc. with PET sb.1, as being a characteristic habit of a вЂpet or indulged and… …
4pettish — *irritable, fractious, peevish, petulant, snappish, waspish, huffy, fretful, querulous …
5pettish — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ petulant. DERIVATIVES pettishly adverb pettishness noun …
6pettish — [pet′ish] adj. [< PET2 + ISH] peevish; petulant; cross pettishly adv. pettishness n …
7pettish — pettishly, adv. pettishness, n. /pet ish/, adj. petulantly peevish: a pettish refusal. [1585 95; see PET2, ISH1] * * * …
8pettish — /ˈpɛtɪʃ/ (say petish) adjective peevish; petulant: a pettish refusal. {pet1 + ish1, originally, like a spoiled child} –pettishly, adverb –pettishness, noun …
9pettish — adjective Etymology: probably from 4pet Date: 1583 fretful, peevish • pettishly adverb • pettishness noun …
10pettish — adjective bad tempered; peevish …
11pettish — pet|tish [ˈpetıʃ] adj ↑petulant >pettishly adv …
12pettish — pet|tish [ petıʃ ] adjective easily annoyed by unimportant things ╾ pet|tish|ly adverb ╾ pet|tish|ness noun uncount …
13pettish — pet·tish || petɪʃ adj. peevish, irascible; ill tempered, irksome, easily angered …
14pettish — adjective petulant. Derivatives pettishly adverb pettishness noun …
15pettish — a. Peevish, fretful, petulant, testy …
16pettish — adjective petulant pettishly adverb pettishness noun (U) …
17pettish — adj 1. peevish, ill humored, touchy, testy, thin skinned, waspish, petulant; cross, irascible, choleric, ill tempered, splenetic; crabby, crabbed, cranky, grouchy, grumpy, cantankerous, crotchety, crusty; irritable, out of sorts, snappish, snappy …
18pettish — pet·tish …
19pettish — UK [ˈpetɪʃ] / US adjective easily annoyed by unimportant things Derived words: pettishly adverb pettishness noun uncountable …
20pettish — pet•tish [[t]ˈpɛt ɪʃ[/t]] adj. petulant or pouty; peevish • Etymology: 1585–95 …
