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for pettish
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
pettish
adj 1: easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious
young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
[syn: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome,
peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy,
testy, tetchy, techy]
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