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  • English Word Pettichaps Definition See Pettychaps.
  • English Word Petticoat Definition A loose under-garment worn by women, and covering the body below the waist.
  • English Word Pettifog Definition To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way.
  • English Word Pettifog Definition To advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as, to pettifog a claim.
  • English Word Pettifogged Definition of Pettifog
  • English Word Pettifogger Definition A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.
  • English Word Pettifoggery Definition The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles.
  • English Word Pettifogging Definition of Pettifog
  • English Word Pettifogging Definition Paltry; quibbling; mean.
  • English Word Pettifogging Definition Pettifoggery.
  • English Word Pettifogulize Definition To act as a pettifogger; to use contemptible tricks.
  • English Word Pettily Definition In a petty manner; frivolously.
  • English Word Pettiness Definition The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.
  • English Word Petting Definition of Pet
  • English Word Pettish Definition Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper.
  • English Word Pettitoes Definition The toes or feet of a pig, -- often used as food; sometimes, in contempt, the human feet.
  • English Word Petto Definition The breast.
  • English Word Petty Definition Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.
  • English Word Pettychaps Definition Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinae, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis).
  • English Word Pettywhin Definition The needle furze. See under Needle.
  • English Word Petulance Definition Alt. of Petulancy
  • English Word Petulancy Definition The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.
  • English Word Petulant Definition Forward; pert; insolent; wanton.
  • English Word Petulant Definition Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable.
  • English Word Petulantly Definition In a petulant manner.
  • English Word Petulcity Definition Wantonness; friskiness.
  • English Word Petulcous Definition Wanton; frisky; lustful.
  • English Word Petunia Definition A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacera, with reddish purple flowers, and P. nyctaginiflora, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.
  • English Word Petunse Definition Alt. of Petuntze
  • English Word Petuntse Definition Alt. of Petuntze