Pettish \Pet"tish\, a. [From Pet.]
Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper.
"A pettish kind of humor." --Sterne. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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