meaning of peevish
1. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
2. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.
3. Silly; childish; trifling.
4. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his
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