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"english": "The foullest sloven under heaven, / Proud, peevish, lither, and lewd, / Malapert, meddler, nothing well thewed, […]",
"ref": "a. 1530 (date written), John Skelton, “Poems against Garnesche. Skelton Laureate Defendar ageinst Lusty Garnyshe Well Beseen Crystofer Chalangar, et cetera.”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Poetical Works of John Skelton: […], volume I, London: Thomas Rodd, […], published 1843, →OCLC, page 130, lines 145–147:",
"text": "The follest slouen ondyr heuen, / Prowde, peuiche, lyddyr, and lewde, / Malapert, medyllar, nothyng well thewde, […]",
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"ref": "1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:",
"text": "What a wretched and peevish fellow is this king of England, to mope with his fat-brained followers so far out of his knowledge!",
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"ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:",
"text": "Why should a man whose blood is warme within, / Sit like his grandsire, cut in Alabaster? / […] And creep into the Iaundies / By beeing peeuish?",
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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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"ref": "1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "[T]he luckless Kitty continued in the parlour repining at her fate in terms as unreasonable as her accent was peevish.",
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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": "1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 471:",
"text": "They used to tell one about a kid asking his grumpy old man when they were walking to the park, \"What's the name of this flower, Papa?\" And the old guy is peevish and he yells, \"How should I know? Am I in the milinery business?\"",
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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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"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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"ref": "1539, Coverdale Bible (Cranmer Preface)",
"text": "Not onely foolyshe frowarde and obstinate but also peuysshe, peruerse and indurate."
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"ref": "c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:",
"text": "Why, this it is, to be a peeuish Girle, / That flies her fortune when it followes her.",
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"ref": "c. 1626 or 1629–1633 (first performance), [John Ford], ’Tis Pitty Shee’s a Whore […], London: […] Nicholas Okes for Richard Collins, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act V, signature I2, verso:",
"text": "Confuſion take ſuch dotage, 'tis but forg'd, / This is your peeuiſh chattering vveake old man.",
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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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"ref": "1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 471:",
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"ref": "1927, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily's Quest, page 174:",
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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:",
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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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