Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pettish"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pettish \Pet"tish\, a. [From {Pet}.]
Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper.
``A pettish kind of humor.'' --Sterne. -- {Pet"tish*ly}, adv.
-- {Pet"tish*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pettish
adj : easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious
young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his
countrymen" [syn: {cranky}, {fractious}, {irritable}, {nettlesome},
{peevish}, {peckish}, {petulant}, {testy}, {tetchy}, {techy}]
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