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peevish
easily irritated, especially by small annoyances
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peevish in a sentence
The peevish clerk sighed whenever a customer asked a routine question.
The exhausted child became peevish, complaining about the lights, the food, and the noise.
Where it comes from
From Middle English pevish, meaning 'ill-tempered or perverse.'
Memory hook
PEEVISH contains PEEVE: a peevish person is easily peeved.
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