peevish

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters; fretful, whiny.

   “Due to the long wait, there were several peevish patients in the doctor’s waiting room.”

2. sıfat Quick to become bad-tempered or cross, especially due to insignificant matters; irritable, pettish, petulant.

   “I would rather figure things out on my own than ask that peevish librarian for help.”

3. sıfat Of weather: blustery, windy; also, of wind: cold and strong; bitter, sharp.

   “Serene he bears the peeviſh eaſtern blaſt, / And uninfected breaths the mortal South.”

4. sıfat Coy, modest.
5. sıfat Foolish, silly.

   “VVhy vvhat a peeuiſh Foole vvas that of Creet [i.e., Daedalus], / That taught his Sonne [Icarus] the office of a Fovvle, / And yet for all his vvings, the Foole vvas drovvn'd.”

6. sıfat Harmful, injurious; also, mischievous; or malicious, spiteful.

   “[The Scots] brent ſome of the English Shippes. With the which victory, they were ſo inflamed with pride, that in deriſion of the king, they made certaine peeuiſhe and mocking rymes vvhich I paſſe ouer.”

7. sıfat Impulsive and unpredictable; capricious, fickle.

   “[T]heſe women be all ſuche madde pieuiſhe elues / They will not be wonne except it pleaſe them ſelues.”

8. sıfat Obstinately in the wrong; perverse, stubborn.

   “But ſuche as will perſyſt ſtyll in theyr wylfulneſſe, I muſt nedes iudge not only foliſhe, froward and obstynate: but also peuiſhe, peruerſe and indurate.”

9. sıfat Out of one's mind; mad.

   “The dredfull dinne droue all the rowte on a rowe; / Some tremblid, some girnid, some gaspid, some gasid, / As people halfe peuysshe, or men that were masyd.”

10. sıfat Of a thing: evoking a feeling of distaste, horror, etc.

    “The Lords Supper and your peeviſh, popiſh private maſſe doe agree together like God and the divell, Chriſt and Beliall, light and darkneſſe, truth and falſehood, […]”

11. sıfat Clever, skilful.

    “The word peeviſh among the vulgar of Scotland is uſed for niggardly, covetous; in the North of England, for vvitty, ſubtile.”

12. zarf Synonym of peevishly (“in a peevish manner: whiningly; irritably, petulantly; etc.”).

    “She was not halfe so wyse / As she was peuysshe nyse.”