Peevish

Adjective

 * 1) Constantly complaining; fretful, whining.

Derived terms

 * peevishly
 * peevishness

Adverbs for Peevish
unspeakably; unreasonably; unwarrantably; terribly; disagreeably; unfortunately; unpleasantly; horribly; uncommonly; habitually; naturally; querulously; feverishly; childishly; fretfully; captiously; obstinately; incurably; acrimoniously; vexatiously; intolerably; insufferably; unaccountably; inexplicably; curiously; strangely; oddly; significantly; brusquely; snappishly; embarrassingly; humiliatingly.

Thesaurus
Jeremianic, acrimonious, bad-tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bilious, bitching, cantankerous, captious, carping, catty, caviling, cavilling, churlish, complaining, complaintful, crabbed, crabbing, crabby, cranky, critical, croaking, cross, crotchety, crusty, disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, envious, faultfinding, fractious, fretful, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling, grumpish, grumpy, howling, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irritable, lamentive, malcontent, malcontented, moanful, mournful, murmuring, muttering, nagging, naggy, out of humor, pettish, petulant, plaintive, plangent, puling, querulant, querulous, rebellious, resentful, restive, restless, short-tempered, shrewish, snappish, sorrowful, splenetic, sulky, testy, tetchy, touchy, ululant, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unsatisfied, vixenish, vixenly, wailful, waspish, whimpering, whining, whiny

Etymology
Late 14th century peyvesshe "capricious, silly", perhaps a corruption of Latin perversus "perverted". The meaning "fretful" develops in the 16th century.

Translations

 * Finnish: mariseva
 * German: quengelig, gereizt,  verdrossen,  verdrießlich,
 * Hungarian: nyűgös, durcás


 * Scottish Gaelic:, gruamach, gearanach, dranndanach
 * Spanish: quejica, quejicoso,  ,