English Dictionary

peevish

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpiːvɪʃ/

副詞

比較不可 廃用

(obsolete) Peevishly.

日本語の意味

不機嫌な / 怒りっぽい / 短気でいらだちやすい

At dinner, he peevish pushed his plate away and refused to speak.

夕食の席で、彼は不機嫌そうに皿を押しのけ、口を利くのを拒んだ。

意味（1）

(obsolete) Peevishly.

Be not peeuish fond in great designes. [1597 ‘pieuish, fond’; 1598 ‘peeuish, fond’; Malone conjectured ‘peevish-fond’, the reading adopted in many modern editions; the Arden edition prefers ‘peevish found’.].