peevish

1. (Canada, Northern England, figurative) Of weather: blustery, windy; also, of wind: cold and strong; bitter, sharp.Examples: "Serene he bears the peeviſh eaſtern blaſt, / And uninfected breaths the mortal South."CanadaNorthern-Englandfiguratively

2. (obsolete)obsolete

3. (obsolete)Examples: "VVhy vvhat a peeuiſh Foole vvas that of Creet [i.e., Daedalus], / That taught his Sonne [Icarus] the office of a Fovvle, / And yet for all his vvings, the Foole vvas drovvn'd."; "Confuſion take ſuch dotage, 'tis but forg'd, / This is your peeuiſh chattering vveake old man."obsolete

4. (obsolete)Examples: "[The Scots] brent ſome of the English Shippes. With the which victory, they were ſo inflamed with pride, that in deriſion of the king, they made certaine peeuiſhe and mocking rymes vvhich I paſſe ouer."; "Ile home, and ſtarue, this croſſe, this peeuiſh hap, / Strikes dead my ſpirits like a thunderclap."Synonyms: harmful, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, hurtful, inimical, injurious, mischievousobsolete

5. (obsolete)Examples: "[T]heſe women be all ſuche madde pieuiſhe elues / They will not be wonne except it pleaſe them ſelues."; "VVhy this it is, to be a peeuiſh Girle, / That flies her fortune vvhen it follovves her: […]"obsolete

6. (obsolete)Examples: "But ſuche as will perſyſt ſtyll in theyr wylfulneſſe, I muſt nedes iudge not only foliſhe, froward and obstynate: but also peuiſhe, peruerſe and indurate."; "Nothing is ſo great an enemie to a ſounde iudgment, as the pride of a péeuiſh conceit, which cauſeth a man both in life and beliefe, either to ſnatch vppe or hatch newfangles."; "But, the main end for vvhich this deſert may ſeem ordained, vvas, that therein God and the Iſraelites might for forty years mutually prove one another. And upon triall, they appeared a peeviſh, frovvard, ſtubborn people."Synonyms: adamant, ardent, bent on, bloody-minded, bullheaded, certain, chronic, confirmedobsolete