Peevishness

Definitions: Peevishness

Peevishness

Noun

1. An irritable petulant feeling.

2. A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees".

Date "peevishness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Peevishness

Synonyms: biliousness (n), choler (n), crossness (n), fretfulness (n), fussiness (n), irritability (n), pettishness (n), petulance (n), snappishness (n), surliness (n), temper (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Peevishness

English words defined with "peevishness": Curstness ♦ Petulancy, Protervity ♦ Wrawness. (references)

Specialty definitions using "peevishness": Screw. (references)

Etymologies containing "peevishness": Wrawness. (references)

"Peevishness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Peevishness" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

Language		Translations for "peevishness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		rozmrzelost (annoyance, huff, moodiness, resentment, unpleasantness, upset). (various references)

Finnish		äreys (crossness, grumpiness). (various references)

German		verdrießlichkeit (crabbedness, crossness, fretfulness, glumness, grumpiness, irksomeness, moroseness, sourness, sullenness, surliness). (various references)

Greek		αψιθυμία, δυστροπία (biliousness, crabbedness, crustiness, grouchiness, moroseness, orneriness, perversity, pettishness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, surliness, testiness, waspishness, waywardness). (various references)

Hungarian		ingerlékenység (fractiousness, irascibility, irritability, irritableness, petulance, quick temper). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		癇性 (irritability). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		か�"しょう (admiration, appreciation, atoll, buffered, circular coral reef, complete victory, contemplation, encouragement, enjoyment, hot temper, interference, intervention, irascibility, irritability, letter salutation, management, meditation, observation, praise and encouragement, sentiment, sentimentality, stimulation, taking charge). (various references)

Manx		neureeartys, granganys (cantankerousness, cattishness, cynicism, disagreeableness, fractiousness, fretfulness, grumpiness, snappish), granganid (captiousness, churlishness, crabbedness, crossness, ill temper, ill-naturedness), granganaght, gonnid (pain, smarting, soreness). (various references)

Pig Latin		eevishnesspay

Romanian		supãrare (affliction, anger, annoyance, bitterness, burden, care, chafe, cloud, cross, damage, Dander, fury, grief, harm, irritation, mood, moroseness, mumps, pain, pet, pettishness, pique, rage, Ruth, sadness, sorrow, spite, spunk, suffering, sulk, trouble, vexation). (various references)

Russian		раздражительность (crossness, crustiness, grumpiness, impatience, irascibility, irritability, petulance, petulancy, soreness, temper, testiness, touchiness). (various references)

Scottish		saoibhneas. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zlovolja (animosity, bad mood, ill humor, miff, peeve, spleen). (various references)

Spanish		terquedad (contrariness, doggery, mulishness, obduracy, obstinacy, stolidity, toughness), mal humor (bad mood, bad temper, crossness, fretfulness, grouch, grouchiness, grumpiness, ill humor, ill humour, moodiness, peeve, petulance, spleen, surliness), displicencia (disapproval, displease, dissatisfy, fretfulness, indifference). (various references)

Turkish		titizlik (daintiness, fastidiousness, fussiness, meticulousness, niceness, nicety, particularity, punctilio, rigor, rigour, scrupulousness, thoroughness). (various references)

Ukranian		дратівливість (biliousness, impatience, irascibility, irritability, soreness, touchiness). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính hay dằn dỗi (pettishness, petulance), tính hay c� u nh� u, tính cáu kỉnh tính hay cáu. (various references)

Welsh		anniddigrwydd (uneasiness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "peevishness": peevishnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "peevishness" (pronounced 'Pee"vish*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-h-i-n-p-s-s-s-v"
	-2 letters: hipnesses.
	-3 letters: sheenies, sneeshes.
	-4 letters: hipness, peevish, penises, pensees, pensive, sheenie, sheeves, speises, spenses, sphenes, vespine.
	-5 letters: envies, espies, hisses, nesses, nieves, peeves, peises, pensee, pishes, pisses, seines, seises, senses, sepses, sepsis, sevens, sheens, sheeve, shines, shives, sieves, sneesh, snipes, speise, speiss, spense, sphene, spines.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-h-i-n-p-s-s-s-v"
	+2 letters: peevishnesses.
	+5 letters: apprehensiveness.
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