peevish

As adjectives the difference between peevish and attery

is that peevish is constantly complaining; fretful, whining while attery is (dialectal|or|archaic) poisonous; venomous.

As a noun attery is

(of weather|dialectal|or|archaic) cold, bleak weather.

As an adjective peevish

is constantly complaining; fretful, whining.

As a verb harshen is

to make, or to become harsh; render hard and rough.

As adjectives the difference between peevish and crotched

is that peevish is constantly complaining; fretful, whining while crotched is having a crotch or fork; forked.

As adjectives the difference between peevish and vapourish

is that peevish is constantly complaining; fretful, whining while vapourish is characteristic of vapour.

As an adjective peevish

is constantly complaining; fretful, whining.

As an adverb complainingly is

in a complaining manner; peevishly.