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— English words —

• peevish adj. Characterized by or exhibiting petty bad temper, bad-tempered, moody, cross.
• peevish adj. Constantly complaining, whining; childishly fretful.
• peevish adj. Easily annoyed, especially by things that are not important; irritable, querulous.
• peevish adj. (Obsolete, Northern England) Clever, expert.
• peevish adj. (Obsolete, Canada, Northern England) Sharp, piercing, bitter (of the wind); windy, blustery (of the weather).
• peevish adj. (Chiefly obsolete) Perverse, refractory; headstrong, obstinate; capricious, skittish; (also) coy.
• peevish adj. (Obsolete) Silly, senseless, foolish.
• peevish adj. (Obsolete) Beside oneself; out of one’s senses; mad.
• peevish adj. (Obsolete) Spiteful, malignant, mischievous, harmful.
• peevish adj. (Obsolete) Hateful, distasteful, horrid.
• peevish adv. (Obsolete) Peevishly.

— English word, defined in French —

• peevish adj. De mauvaise humeur, maussade.

66 English words from 11 English definitions

also annoyed are bad bad-tempered Beside Beside␣oneself bitter blustery Canada capricious Characterized Chiefly childishly Clever complaining Constantly coy cross distasteful Easily England especially exhibiting expert foolish fretful harmful Hateful headstrong horrid important irritable mad malignant mischievous moody Northern not obsolete obstinate one oneself out out␣of Peevishly Perverse petty piercing querulous refractory senseless senses Sharp Silly skittish Spiteful temper tempered that the things weather whining wind windy

4 foreign words from the foreign definition

humeur maussade mauvaise mauvaise␣humeur

3 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

peevishly peevishness peevishnesses

One prefix (New word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

unpeevish

12 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

EeV ish Ish ISH -ish pee Pee p'ee vis Vis VIs Vis.

10 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

eep Hsi ive Ive -ive I've SIV vee Vee veep

One anagram found with an extra letter (New word formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

pehlevis

2 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

iSheep pevish

2 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

beevish pievish

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

pevish

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