peevish

The follest slouen ondyr heuen, / Prowde, peuiche, lyddyr, and lewde, / Malapert, medyllar, nothyng well thewde, […]

The foullest sloven under heaven, / Proud, peevish, lither, and lewd, / Malapert, meddler, nothing well thewed, […]

[T]he luckless Kitty continued in the parlour repining at her fate in terms as unreasonable as her accent was peevish.

At first he was quite peevish. “What's the idea,” he said, “coming and spoiling a man's beauty-sleep? Get out.”

The word peevish among the vulgar of Scotland is used for niggardly, covetous; in the North of England, for witty, subtile.

[…] the ridge […] / […] defends you from the blust'ring north, / And bleak affliction of the peevish east.

Not onely foolyshe frowarde and obstinate but also peuysshe, peruerse and indurate.

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This is your peeuish chattering weake old man.

Some tremblid, some girnid, some gaspid, some gasid, As people halfe peuysshe, or men that were masyd.

In derision of the king, they made certaine peeuishe and mocking rymes which I passe ouer.

The Lords Supper and your peevish, popish private masse doe agree together..as the common proverbe is, like harpe and harrow, or like the hare and the hound.