PEEVISH

peevish. Peevish, a. waspish, cross, very hard to please

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Pee″vish (?), a. [[OE. pevische; of uncertain origin, perh. from a word imitative of the noise made by fretful children + -ish.]] 1. 1. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. “Her peevish babe.” Wordsworth.
She is peevish, sullen, froward. Shak. 2. 2. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.
3. 3. Silly; childish; trifling.
To send such peevish tokens to a king. Shak. Syn. — Querulous; petulant; cross; ill-tempered; testy; captious; discontented. See Fretful.