pettishness
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɛtɪʃnəs/
Noun
pettishness (countable and uncountable, plural pettishnesses)
- The state of being pettish; peevishness, irritability. [from 17th c.]
- 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 46:
- The sense that she was observed, or, more properly speaking, that she was watched by my looks, seemed to give Diana a mixture of embarrassment, pain, and pettishness.
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