Both Uses of
peevish
in
Othello, the Moor of Venice
- I cannot speak Any beginning to this peevish odds; And would in action glorious I had lost Those legs that brought me to a part of it!†
Scene 2.3 *
- But I do think it is their husbands' faults If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties And pour our treasures into foreign laps; Or else break out in peevish jealousies, Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us, Or scant our former having in despite; Why, we have galls; and though we have some grace, Yet have we some revenge.†
Scene 4.3
Definition:
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(peevish) annoyed or easily annoyed -- especially by unimportant things