Both Uses
peevish
in
Twelfth Night
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- Run after that same peevish messenger, The county's man: he left this ring behind him, Would I or not; tell him I'll none of it.†
p. 45.3
- Come, sir, you peevishly threw it to her; and her will is it should be so returned.†
p. 53.3 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(peevish) annoyed or easily annoyed -- especially by unimportant things
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)