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- English Word Peevish Definition Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
- English Word Peevish Definition Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.
- English Word Peevish Definition Silly; childish; trifling.
- English Word Peevishly Definition In a peevish manner.
- English Word Peevishness Definition The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper.
- English Word Peevit Definition Alt. of Peewit
- English Word Peewit Definition See Pewit.
- English Word Peg Definition A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.
- English Word Peg Definition A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.
- English Word Peg Definition One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
- English Word Peg Definition One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.
- English Word Peg Definition A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg."
- English Word Peg Definition To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.
- English Word Peg Definition To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points.
- English Word Peg Definition To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.
- English Word Pegador Definition A species of remora (Echeneis naucrates). See Remora.
- English Word Pegasean Definition Of or pertaining to Pegasus, or, figuratively, to poetry.
- English Word Pegasoid Definition Like or pertaining to Pegasus.
- English Word Pegasus Definition A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration.
- English Word Pegasus Definition A northen constellation near the vernal equinoctial point. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the square of Pegasus.
- English Word Pegasus Definition A genus of small fishes, having large pectoral fins, and the body covered with hard, bony plates. Several species are known from the East Indies and China.
- English Word Pegged Definition of Peg
- English Word Pegger Definition One who fastens with pegs.
- English Word Pegging Definition of Peg
- English Word Pegging Definition The act or process of fastening with pegs.
- English Word Pegm Definition A sort of moving machine employed in the old pageants.
- English Word Pegmatite Definition Graphic granite. See under Granite.
- English Word Pegmatite Definition More generally, a coarse granite occurring as vein material in other rocks.
- English Word Pegmatitic Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.
- English Word Pegomancy Definition Divination by fountains.