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  • image layout frameless Peevish an article on "peevish", but its sister project Wiktionary does: Read the Wiktionary entry "peevish" You can also: Search for Peevish in Misplaced Pages to... 319 bytes (0 words) - 00:06, 16 March 2024
  • image layout frameless Gordon Bennett (phrase) Bennett: A puzzling British exclamation" World Wide Words "Gordon Bennett!". Peevish.co.uk. Retrieved 8 September 2017. "Gordon Bennett! – the meaning and origin... 3 KB (367 words) - 14:16, 8 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rob MorrowRob Morrow Lyall, Sarah (August 26, 1992). "At Dinner With: Rob Morrow – He's No Peevish Dr. Fleischman, But He's at Home in Bagel Town". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331... 22 KB (1,294 words) - 15:25, 7 December 2024
  • image layout frameless Paranoid personality disorder Self-assertive, unyielding, stubborn, steely, implacable, unrelenting, dyspeptic, peevish, and cranky stance; legalistic and self-righteous; discharges previously... 22 KB (2,216 words) - 01:20, 22 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seven deadly sinsSeven deadly sins and wrawnesse, the last variously translated as "anger" or better as "peevishness". For Chaucer, human's sin consists of languishing and holding back,... 32 KB (3,568 words) - 22:20, 11 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for PuritansPuritans by his education and Scottish upbringing, and he dealt shortly with the peevish legacy of Elizabethan Puritanism, pursuing an eirenic religious policy... 97 KB (11,194 words) - 14:09, 10 January 2025
  • image layout frameless Pet peeve in the twentieth century, derived by back-formation from the adjective peevish, meaning "ornery or ill-tempered", which dates from the late 14th-century... 3 KB (397 words) - 14:27, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rory BremnerRory Bremner that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism." However, he remained an outspoken critic of the... 20 KB (2,004 words) - 05:06, 14 November 2024
  • image layout frameless List of Latin phrases (full) Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States. delectatio morosa peevish delight In Catholic theology, pleasure taken in a sinful thought or imagination... 2 KB (3,757 words) - 21:16, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sloth (deadly sin)Sloth (deadly sin) and wrawnesse, the last variously translated as "anger" or better as "peevishness". For Chaucer, human's sin consists of languishing and holding back,... 10 KB (1,255 words) - 07:40, 4 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for SylphSylph in which the sylph is the mystically, chemically condensed humors of peevish women. In Pope's poem, women who are full of spleen and vanity turn into... 16 KB (2,070 words) - 19:57, 18 December 2024
  • image layout frameless Eric Cartman to loud arguments, which in earlier seasons typically end with Cartman peevishly saying "Screw you guys ... I'm going home!" and then leaving. In an action... 70 KB (7,060 words) - 09:59, 11 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Hugh DaltonHugh Dalton relatively minor positions. His biographer Ben Pimlott characterised Dalton as peevish, irascible, given to poor judgment and lacking administrative talent. Pimlott... 113 KB (15,319 words) - 15:49, 11 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for The Taming of the ShrewThe Taming of the Shrew prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband; And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour, And not obedient to his honest will, What is she but a foul... 146 KB (19,379 words) - 03:39, 10 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Jesus weptJesus wept 2008-12-23 at the Wayback Machine, interview with Joe Nickell, August 2000 E.g. Peevish.co.uk dictionary of slang, Dagree.net Archived 2007-02-03 at the Wayback... 14 KB (1,356 words) - 16:33, 7 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for The Cricket on the HearthThe Cricket on the Hearth son May Fielding, an old friend of Dot's Mrs Fielding, May's mother; a peevish, querulous old lady In July 1845, Dickens contemplated forming a periodical... 16 KB (1,922 words) - 18:57, 7 December 2024
  • image layout frameless Last Holiday (2006 film) exactly where we're going, but the journey is so much fun, all but the most peevish audience members will find it impossible to complain." Janet K. Keeler... 18 KB (2,433 words) - 01:14, 12 January 2025
  • image layout frameless Ace Ventura: Pet Detective the point. The movie has the metabolism, logic, and attention span of a peevish 6-year-old." He said of Ace Ventura's animals, "The few scenes of Ace communicating... 36 KB (3,591 words) - 12:29, 5 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Nick KrollNick Kroll stated that "he way Kroll savors every syllable of his alternately peevish, self-pitying and nonsensical dialogue—aided mightily by the animators... 35 KB (2,266 words) - 07:15, 1 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Simla ConferenceSimla Conference recover. Upon hearing of this Churchill is said to have sent Wavell a peevish telegram asking ''why Gandhi has not died yet?'' Communal division was... 16 KB (2,267 words) - 15:50, 7 August 2024
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