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peevishly

adv

Etymology

From peevish + -ly.

  1. derived from expavidus — “extremely frightened or horrified”
  2. derived from espave — “(adjective) of an animal: stray; of a person: foreign; (noun) flotsam; lost property”
  3. derived from espave
  4. derived from *expaive✻
  5. derived from *wert-✻ — “to rotate; to turn”
  6. derived from perversus — “corrupted, perverted, subverted; overthrown”
  7. inherited from pievish
  8. suffixed as peevishly — “peevish + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a peevish manner.

    • "See / Or shut your eyes," said Nature peevishly, / "It nothing skills: I cannot help my case: / 'Tis the Last Judgment's fire must cure this place, / Calcine its clods and set my prisoners free."
    • His uncles peevishly claimed the paper.
    • Seated in a kitchen chair, and rasping at his scorched shoulders, he said peevishly, "By ginger, it gives a man the willies, left alone in a place like this all day."

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA