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{
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"word": "tolerant"
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"word": "uncomplaining"
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"word": "unflappable"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English pevische, pevisse, pevysse, peivesshe, also peyuesshe, peeuish, of obscure origin. Perhaps from Middle English pew, pue (“a plaintive cry, the cry of a bird”), equivalent to pue + -ish. Cognate with Scots pevis, pevess, pevych, pevach (“peevish”), Scots pew, peu (“to cry in a plaintive manner”). See pue.\nAn alternative etymology derives Middle English peyvesshe (“capricious, silly”), as a possible corruption of Latin perversus (“perverted”). The meaning “fretful” develops in the 16th century.\nA third suggestion links the word to classical Latin expavidus (“startled, shy”) (< ex- + pavidus) via an unrecorded variant with -ai- of Middle French espave (“stray [of animals]; foreign [of persons]; lost property, flotsam”) (first attested 1283 in Old French; Modern French épave). The semantic connection is thought to be the behaviour of stray animals. Compare -ish suffix.",
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"text": "I would rather figure things out on my own than ask that peevish librarian for help.",
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"text": "There were several peevish patients in the doctor's waiting room.",
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"sense": "constantly complaining",
"word": "mariseva"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "constantly complaining",
"word": "maussade"
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"sense": "constantly complaining",
"word": "geignard"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "constantly complaining",
"word": "quengelig"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "constantly complaining",
"word": "gereizt"
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"sense": "constantly complaining",
"word": "verdrossen"
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{
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"sense": "constantly complaining",
"word": "verdrießlich"
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"word": "mürrisch"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "constantly complaining",
"word": "nyűgös"
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{
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "constantly complaining",
"word": "durcás"
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{
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"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "constantly complaining",
"word": "cantalach"
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{
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"word": "aingí"
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{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "constantly complaining",
"word": "irritabile"
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "constantly complaining",
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"word": "morosus"
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"word": "ворчли́вый"
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"sense": "constantly complaining",
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"word": "gearanach"
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"word": "alaraco"
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"word": "alharaquiento"
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"ref": "1917, P. G. Wodehouse, “The Mixer”, in The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories",
"text": "At first he was quite peevish. “What's the idea,” he said, “coming and spoiling a man's beauty-sleep? Get out.”",
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"ref": "1710, Thomas Ruddiman in Gawin Douglas, Virgil's Æneis, translated into Scottish verse (new edition), gloss (at cited word)",
"text": "The word peevish among the vulgar of Scotland is used for niggardly, covetous; in the North of England, for witty, subtile."
}
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"Clever, expert."
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"ref": "1744, John Armstrong, The art of preserving health: A poem, book I, v. 285 ff",
"text": "[…] the ridge […] / […] defends you from the blust'ring north, / And bleak affliction of the peevish east.",
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"ref": "1927, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily's Quest, page 174",
"text": "Something has happened to sour February's temper. Such a peevish month.",
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"Sharp, piercing, bitter (of the wind); windy, blustery (of the weather)."
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"(obsolete, Canada, Northern England) Sharp, piercing, bitter (of the wind); windy, blustery (of the weather)."
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"ref": "1539, Coverdale Bible (Cranmer Preface)",
"text": "Not onely foolyshe frowarde and obstinate but also peuysshe, peruerse and indurate."
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"(chiefly obsolete) Perverse, refractory; headstrong, obstinate; capricious, skittish; (also) coy."
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"Silly, senseless, foolish."
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"(obsolete) Silly, senseless, foolish."
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{
"ref": "1523, John Skelton, A goodly garlande or chapelet of laurell, page 266",
"text": "Some tremblid, some girnid, some gaspid, some gasid, As people halfe peuysshe, or men that were masyd.",
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"Beside oneself; out of one's senses; mad."
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"(obsolete) Beside oneself; out of one's senses; mad."
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{
"ref": "1569, chapter 2, in A chronicle at large and meere history of the affayres of Englande and kinges of the same, 1st edition, Richard Grafton, page 176",
"text": "In derision of the king, they made certaine peeuishe and mocking rymes which I passe ouer.",
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},
{
"ref": "1601, John Marston et al., Iacke Drums entertainment, ch. II, sig. D2ᵛ",
"text": "This crosse, this peeuish hap, / Strikes dead my spirits like a thunderclap."
}
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"Spiteful, malignant, mischievous, harmful."
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"ref": "1601, John Marston et al., Iacke Drums entertainment, ch. II, sig. D2ᵛ",
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"ref": "1563, Thomas Becon, The displaying of the Popish masse (new edition, 1637), p. 299",
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