petulant : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: petulant	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for petulant
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
petulant adj easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" Synonym(s): cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Petulant \Pet"ulant\, a. [L. petulans, -antis, prop., making slight attacks upon, from a lost dim. of petere to fall upon, to attack: cf. F. p[82]tulant. See {Petition}.] 1. Forward; pert; insolent; wanton. [Obs.] --Burton. 2. Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable. [bd]Petulant* moods.[b8] --Macaulay. Syn: Irritable; ill-humored; peevish; cross; fretful; querulous.