pettishness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pettishness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for pettishness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pettishness n a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees" Synonym(s): temper, biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pettish \Pet"tish\, a. [From {Pet}.] Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper. [bd]A pettish kind of humor.[b8] --Sterne. -- {Pet"tishly}, adv. -- {Pet"tishness}, n.