Reverse Dictionary: PEEVISH

ADJECTIVES
► ATTERY peevish, bad-tempered, spiteful → 1742 
► AVER peevish, fretful → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► AWVISH peevish, queer → 1850 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BINNACY cross, peevish → 1921 Amer. dial.
► CAINGY peevish, irritable, cross → 1778 Eng. dial.
► CAINJING peevish, ill-natured → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CANKING peevish, whining → 1790 Eng. dial.
► CANKY peevish, cross → 1850 Eng. dial.
► CAPERNOITED peevish, crabbed, irritable → 1719 Sc.
► CAPERNOITY peevish, crabbed, peevish → 1769 Sc.
► CARBIN fretful, peevish → 1825 Sc.
► CHUNTOUS adj. peevish; inclined to quarrel → 1889 Eng. dial.
► CRABBY peevish, bad-tempered, cross-grained → 1776 
► CROSS AS TWO STICKS very peevish or annoyed → 1830 colloq.
► CROSSISH rather peevish or cross → 1740 
► CROTCHICAL cross, perverse, peevish → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)
► CRUP peevish, pettish, snappish → 1736 
► EAR-SORE peevish, irritable, ill-tempered → 1594 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► ETTEN peevish, cantankerous, crusty → 1911 Sc.
► EXCEPTIOUS peevish, ​cavilling, prone to making objections → 1602 
► FASHIOUS ► FASHOUS peevish, fractious, fretting → 1736 Sc.
► FEASY peevish, cross, irritable → 1900 (Bk.)
► FRAB peevish, cross, ill-tempered → 19C Eng. dial.
► FRABBY peevish, cross, ill-tempered → 19C Eng. dial.
► FRAMPOLD peevish, ill-tempered, cross → 1598 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► FRATCHETY peevish, irritable, ill-tempered → 19C Eng. dial.
► FRITCHETY peevish, fretful, fidgety → 19C Eng. dial.
► FROPPISH peevish, froward, fretful → 1659 obs.
► GNATTERIE ► GNATTERY► NATTERIE ► NITTERIE ► NITTERY peevish, crabbed, cantankerous → 1825  Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GROUTY peevish, sulky, cross → 1836 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► GRUBBY testy, ill-tempered, peevish → 1866 Eng. dial.
► GRUMPISH peevish, surly → 20C colloq.
► GRUNTY – discontented, peevish → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GUMMAGY ► GUMMIDGEY peevish, of a snarling, scolding disposition → 1889 sl.
► HACKLED peevish, cross-grained, angry → 1905 Eng. & Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► HUMOURSOME subject to moods; whimsical, capricious; peevish, ill-humoured → 1607 arch.
► ILL peevish, cross, angry → 1857 Amer. dial.
► ILL-THRIVEN peevish, ill-disposed → 1843 
► ILL-TWINED peevish, bad-tempered → 1893 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MARDY peevish, pettish, spoiled → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MARRED peevish, pettish, spoiled → 1790 Eng. dial. 
► MAUNGY peevish, cross, ill-tempered → 1865 Eng. dial.
► MAWDY peevish, cross; said of a child → 1882 Eng. dial.
► MAWKY peevish, discontented → 1854 Eng. dial.
► MELANCHOLY peevish → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MUSTY peevish, sullen, bad-tempered → 1620 
► NAFFING peevish, chattering → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► NARKED peeved, irritated, annoyed → 1888 sl.
► NATTERED peevish, complaining → 1853 Eng. dial.
► NAZZY ► NAZY peevish, ill-tempered, irritable → 1878 Eng. dial.
► NEPPERED peevish, cross → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NETTLESOME peevish, ill-humoured, quarrelsome → 1895 Eng. dial.
► NETTLIE peevish, ill-humoured, quarrelsome → 1825 Sc.
► OFF THE HOOK(S) peevish, ill-tempered, in a state → 1612 sl.
► OOLING peevish, fretful, downcast → 1928 Sc.
► PEAKING peevish, pining → 1871 Eng. dial. 
► PENSY peevish, fretful, fractious; said of children → 1812 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PROTERVE peevish, petulant → 1382 obs.
► PUDGETTY  ► PUDJICKY  ► PUTCHITY sensitive; sullen; pettish; grouchy, peevish → 1866 Amer. dial.
► PUTCHY sensitive; sullen; pettish; grouchy, peevish → 1905 Amer. dial.
► PUXY sensitive; sullen; pettish; grouchy, peevish → 1921 Amer. dial.
► QUERKETY given to peevish complaining → 1905 (Bk.)
► QUERKING ► QUIRKING given to peevish complaining → 1746 Eng. dial.
► QUERKY given to peevish complaining → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RAMISED ► RAMISHED listless in a peevish, fretful way; esp. of a child → 1838 Sc.
► REEDEN ► REEDENT ► WREEDEN ► WRIDDEN peevish, irritable, angry → 1781 Eng. dial.
► SANNOCKING peevish, fretful, whining → 1893 Eng. dial.
► SANSHACH peevish, pettish → 1882 Eng. dial.
► SPLENITIVE peevish, splenetic; irritable → 1633 obs.
► SULKY AS A BEAR WITH A SORE HEAD adj. sullen, irritable, peevish → 1840
► TADIOUS ► TAGEOUS ► TEDDIOUS ► TEDIOUS peevish, fretful, fractious, difficult to please → 1892 Eng. dial.
► TAIRDIE ►TARDIE peevish, ill-humoured, sulky → 1825 Sc.
► TANKERSOME peevish, fractious, fretful → 19C Eng. dial. obs.
► TARLOCH peevish, weak, grumbling → 1811 Sc.
► TATCHY peevish, touchy, irritable → 1746 Eng. dial.
► TATTER  peevish, scolding, cross → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TATTERY peevish, cross, ill-tempered → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TEATY ► TEEDY ► TEETHY ► TEETY peevish, fretful, fractious; used esp. of children → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TECHY peevish, touchy, irritable → 1815 Amer. dial.
► TEECHY ► TITCHY peevish, tetchy, irritable → 1691 Eng. dial.
► TEETHY peevish, ill-tempered, cross → 1790 
► TESTIF peevish, aggressive, contentious → 1526 obs.
► TETCHIOUS peevish, irritable, irascible → 1913 Amer. dial.
► TETCHY peevish, touchy, irritable → 1592 
► TETTY peevish, easily offended → 1621 obs. exc. Sc.
► THRAWART peevish, perverse, ill-tempered → 1796 Sc.
► THRAW-GABBIT peevish → 1882 Sc.
► THRAWN-GABBIT peevish, ill-tempered, quarrelsome → 1897 Sc.
► TIFFISH peevish, pettish; ready to take offense → 1855 colloq.
► TOOTHY peevish, ill-natured → 1691 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► TOUCHOUS peevish, irritable, irascible → 1880 Amer. dial.
► TUTTY irritable, ill-tempered, testy, touchy, peevish, easily offended → 1809 Eng. dial.
► UP-HEAD ► UP-HEADED peevish, ill-tempered → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► VEAKING peevish, fretful → 1746 Eng. dial. 
► VINAIGROUS peevish, sour-tempered, ill-tempered → 1837 
► VINNED ► VINNIED peevish, querulous, bad-tempered → 1834 Eng. dial.
► WHINY-PINY peevish, complaining, fretful → 1854 Eng. dial.
► WRAW peevish, crabbed, perverse → 1386 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► WRAWFUL peevish, crabbed, ill-tempered → 1386 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► YAUPING peevish, ill-natured → 1825 Eng. dial.

​ ADVERBS
► CANKEREDLY peevishly; spitefully, malignantly → 1535 
► CANKERLY peevishly; spitefully, malignantly → 1580 obs.
► HUMOURSOMELY capriciously, fancifully; peevishly; later, humorously, comically → 1653

NOUNS
► CANKUM a fit of peevishness, a whim → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GRIZZLE a bout of grumbling or sulking; a peevish mood → 1900
► HARMING peevishness, fretfulness → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► MULLIGRUBS peevishness, sullenness; the sulks; ill temper → 1599 
► OORIECOORIE ► URIKURI a peevish, fretful mood; a being sulky or out-of-sorts; generally in plural → 1893 Sc. obs.
► PEEVE peevishness → 1930 colloq.
► STROP belligerence; peevishness; a fit of temper, a sulk → 1970 UK colloq.
► STROPPINESS belligerence, peevishness → 1969
► VINNIDNESS peevishness, fitfulness → 1842 Eng. dial.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ANGASHORE ► ANGISHORE a peevish person → 1866 Irish sl.
► ATTERCOP a peevish, ill-natured person → 1505 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► AZZALD a peevish, wayward, mischievous child → 1891 Eng. dial. 
► AZZARD  a peevish, wayward, mischievous child → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BISHOP a peevish, cantankerous, or ill-natured boy → 1825 Sc.
► CAINGEL a peevish, cross person → 1684 Eng. dial.
► CAINJER a peevish, cross person → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CARKER a peevish, troublesome child → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CROSS-PATCH a peevish person → 1699 
► GENNY-GIBS a peevish, discontented person → 1877 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GIRN-AGAIN a peevish, ill-humoured person → 1706 Sc. obs.
► GIRNER a peevish, complaining person → 1924 Sc. 
► GIRNIE a peevish, fretful, bad-tempered person → 1825 Sc.
► GIRNIE-GIB ► GIRNY-GIB a peevish, bad-tempered person, esp. of a youngster → 1872 Sc.
► GIRNIE-GIBBIE ► GIRNY-GIBBIE a peevish, fretful, bad-tempered person → 1890 Sc.
► GIRNIGO a peevish, fretful, grumbling, bad-tempered person → 1825 Sc.
► GIRNIGO-GASH a peevish, fretful, bad-tempered person → 1825 Sc.
► GIRNIGO-GIBBIE a peevish, fretful, bad-tempered person → 1788 Sc. 
► GIRNY-GO-GABBY a peevish, fretful, bad-tempered person → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GIRNY-GOWL a peevish person → 1928 Sc. 
► GIRNY-GUB a peevish, bad-tempered person, esp. of a youngster → 1954 Sc.
► GRUMBLE-BELLY a peevish, discontented person → 19C Eng. dial.
► GRUMBLE-DIRT a peevish, discontented person; a confirmed grumbler → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GRUMBLE-GUTS a peevish, discontented person; a confirmed grumbler → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GUMMIDGE a peevish, pessimist person; the complaints of such a person → 1873
► IRP a peevish, complaining person → 1958 Sc.
► MOROSO a peevish, morose, or surly person → 1592 obs.
► MOTHER’S FOUT a peevish, petted, spoiled child → 1825 Sc.
► NATTER-CROP  a peevish person → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NAZARD ► NAZART ► NAZZART ► NAZZET a peevish, wayward, mischievous child → 1896 Eng. dial.
► NIPSCART a peevish, crabbed, ill-tempered person → 1825 Sc.
► OOLET a peevish, disgruntled, dismal person or child → 1908 Sc.
► PAEWAE a peevish weakling → 1927 Sc.
► SOURPUSS a peevish person → 1937 sl., orig. US
► SQUAWP a peevish child → 19C 
► TAISTREL a peevish person; a rascal → 1873 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TARRAN a peevish, ill-humoured person → 1905 Sc. obs. (Bk.)
► TEASTRIL a peevish, crabbed fellow → 1869 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TORN FACE a person with a peevish, sulky face → 1968 Sc. 
► URF a peevish or crabbed person of a diminutive size → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► WIRR a peevish, crabbed, cantankerous, diminutive person → 1825  Sc.
► YAFF a peevish, puny, insignificant person → 1887 Sc.
► YAP a peevish, cross person → 1905 N. Ireland & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► YELP a peevish, complaining person → 1916 Sc.

VERBS
► CANKER to become peevish, to fret → 1873 Sc.
► CRAB to make peevish or ill-tempered → 1662 obs.
► GET UP ON THE WRONG SIDE (OF THE BED) to rise peevish or bad-tempered → 1801 colloq.
► HARM  to be peevish or ill-tempered; to fret → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► HAVE PISSED ON A NETTLE to be peevish or out of temper  → 1902 sl. (Bk.)
► IMPEEVISH to render peevish → 1664 obs.
► NARG to be peevish; to keep grumbling and finding fault → 1824 Sc.
► NARR to be peevish or discontented; to fret → 1825 Sc. 
► NATTER to speak in a peevish manner → 1829 Eng. dial.
► YABBER to speak in a peevish, scolding way → 1825 Sc. 
► YABBLE to speak in a peevish, scolding way → 1825 Sc. 
► YATTER to speak in a constant peevish, querulous manner → 1811 Sc.