peevish

suomi-englanti sanakirja

peevish englannista suomeksi

1. äkäinen, äreä, kärttyisä

1. mariseva

peevish englanniksi

1. Constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters; fretful, whiny.

(antonyms)

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2. (RQ:Barrow Works) showeth it consisteth (..) not in a peevish crossness and obstinate repugnancy to received laws and customs, but in a quiet and peaceable submission to the express laws of God, and lawful commands of man; (..)

3. (RQ:Spectator)

4. (RQ:Austen Pride and Prejudice)

5. (RQ:Hazlitt Table-Talk) querulous and dictatorial, and with a peevish whine in his voice like a beaten school-boy.

6. (RQ:Irving Tales of a Traveller) there is no more melancholy creature in existence than a mountebank off duty.

7. Quick to become bad-tempered or cross, especially due to insignificant matters; irritable, pettish, petulant. (defdate)

(synonyms)

8. (RQ:Skelton Poetical Works)|translation=The foullest sloven under heaven, / Proud, peevish, lither, and lewd, / Malapert, meddler, nothing well thewed, (..)

9. (RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice Q1)

10. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 5)

11. (RQ:Fuller Palestine)

12. (RQ:Taylor Eniautos)

13. (RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress)

14. (RQ:Wodehouse Two Left Feet)

15. (RQ:Montgomery Emily's Quest) A dreary snowstorm is raging and the wind is pursuing tormented wreaths over the hills.|footer=A figurative use.

16. (RQ:Bellow Humboldt's Gift)

17. Of weather: blustery, windy; also, of wind: cold and strong; bitter, sharp.

18. (quote-book) Millar|Andrew Millar,(nb...)|lines=30–31|page=63|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xo2BltSvD5YC&pg=PA63|oclc=1071738019|passage=Serene he bears the peeviſh eaſtern blaſt, / And uninfected breaths the mortal South.

20. Coy, modest.

21. Foolish, silly. (defdate)

22. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-3), / That taught his Sonne (quote-gloss) the office of a Fovvle, / And yet for all his vvings, the Foole vvas drovvn'd.

23. (RQ:John Ford Whore)

24. Harmful, injurious; also, mischievous; or malicious, spiteful. (defdate)

25. (RQ:Grafton Chronicle) brent ſome of the English Shippes. With the which victory, they were ſo inflamed with pride, that in deriſion of the king, they made certaine peeuiſhe and mocking rymes vvhich I paſſe ouer.

26. (RQ:Marston Iacke Drum)

27. Impulsive and unpredictable; capricious, fickle.

28. (RQ:Udall Ralph Roister Doister)

29. (RQ:Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona)

30. Obstinately in the wrong; perverse, stubborn. (defdate)

31. (quote-book) Whitchurch|Edwarde Whitchurche|year_published=31 December 1549 (Gregorian calendar)|section=signature **|sectionurl=https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_the-byble-in-englyshe-_bible-english_1549/page/n2/mode/1up|oclc=606447939|passage=But ſuche as will perſyſt ſtyll in theyr wylfulneſſe, I muſt nedes iudge not only foliſhe, froward and obstynate: but also peuiſhe, peruerſe and indurate.

32. (RQ:Nashe Anatomie of Absurditie)

33. out of one's mind|Out of one's mind; mad. (defdate)

34. (RQ:Skelton Poetical Works)

35. (RQ:Erasmus Newe Testamente) had cauſed Peter to bee kepte, aunſwered to the mayden, Surely thou arte peuyſhe.|footer=A paraphrase of of the Apostles|Acts 12:13–15.

36. (RQ:Lyly Endymion)

37. Of a thing: evoking a feeling of distaste, horror, etc. (defdate)

38. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Anne Griffin for the Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers|Company of Stationers|year_published=1637|page=299|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=_bFoAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA299|oclc=62584519|passage=The Lords Supper and your peeviſh, popiſh private maſſe doe agree together like God and the divell, Chriſt and Beliall, light and darkneſſe, truth and falſehood, (..)

39. Clever, skilful. (defdate)

40. (quote-book)|title=Virgil’s Æneis, Translated into Scottish Verse,(nb...)|edition=new|location=Edinburgh|publisher=(...) Mr. Andrew Symson, and Mr. Robert Freebairn,(nb...)|section=&91;signature N2, verso&93;|sectionurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=XGAJAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PT36|column=1|oclc=1326147967|passage=The word ''peeviſh'' among the vulgar of ''Scotland'' is uſed for ''niggardly'', ''covetous''; in the North of ''England'', for ''vvitty'', ''ſubtile''.|brackets=on

41. (synonym of).

42. (RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3 Q1)'' (1623), page 198, column 2.