Peevish vs Attery - What's the difference?
peevish | attery |
Constantly complaining; fretful, whining.
* , King Henry V , act 3, scene 7:
* 1813 , , Pride and Prejudice , ch. 41:
* 1917 , , "The Mixer" in The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories :
(dialectal, or, archaic) Poisonous; venomous
(dialectal, or, archaic) Pernicious
(of a wound or sore, dialectal, or, archaic) Purulent; containing pus or matter
(of mood or disposition, dialectal, or, archaic) Bad-tempered; spiteful; quarrelsome; peevish; angry; hot-headed
(of weather, dialectal, or, archaic) Cold; bleak; grim
(of weather, dialectal, or, archaic) Cold, bleak weather.
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.peevish
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* (l), (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Orleans: What a wretched and peevish fellow is this king of England, to mope with his fat-brained followers so far out of his knowledge!
- [T]he luckless Kitty continued in the parlour repining at her fate in terms as unreasonable as her accent was peevish .
- At first he was quite peevish . "What's the idea," he said, "coming and spoiling a man's beauty-sleep? Get out."