Pettish

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]