英语词汇“pettish”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

pettish

释义

pettish, a.|ˈpɛtɪʃ|
[f. pet n.² + -ish¹.
But the earliest quots. precede our first example of the n., and are not clearly connected with it in sense.]
Subject to ‘pets’ or fits of offended ill humour; in a pet; proceeding from, pertaining to, or of the nature of, a pet; impatiently angry; peevish, ill-humoured, petulant; easily ‘put out’.
[1552Huloet, Petyshe, impetuosus.1570Levins Manip. 145/44 Pétish, effrænis, iracundus.]a1591R. Greenham Wks. (1599) 12, I am pettish, I am vncomfortable and vnquiet with them, with whom I liue.a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. iv. (1642) 272 He became pettish, wayward, frantick, bloudy.1653Sclater Civ. Magistracy 17 The pettish Israelites (a people seldom if ever, pleased with God's present Providencies) who murmured under Moses.1666Pepys Diary 6 Aug., I checked her, which made her mighty pettish.1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xii, She received the apology with the air of a pettish girl.1838Lytton Alice iii. vii, This was a very pettish speech in Evelyn.1873J. R. Green Letters (1901) i. 7, I was..too weak and pettish for the rougher horse-jokes of stronger boys.

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