- pettish
- adjective Etymology: probably from 4pet Date: 1583 fretful, peevish • pettishly adverb • pettishness noun
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Pettish — 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] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
pettish — index fractious, petulant, querulous Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
pettish — 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… … Etymology dictionary
pettish — *irritable, fractious, peevish, petulant, snappish, waspish, huffy, fretful, querulous … New Dictionary of Synonyms
pettish — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ petulant. DERIVATIVES pettishly adverb pettishness noun … English terms dictionary
pettish — [pet′ish] adj. [< PET2 + ISH] peevish; petulant; cross pettishly adv. pettishness n … English World dictionary
pettish — pettishly, adv. pettishness, n. /pet ish/, adj. petulantly peevish: a pettish refusal. [1585 95; see PET2, ISH1] * * * … Universalium
pettish — /ˈpɛtɪʃ/ (say petish) adjective peevish; petulant: a pettish refusal. {pet1 + ish1, originally, like a spoiled child} –pettishly, adverb –pettishness, noun …
pettish — adjective bad tempered; peevish … Wiktionary
pettish — pet|tish [ˈpetıʃ] adj ↑petulant >pettishly adv … Dictionary of contemporary English
