Peevish, a.
- 1. Fretful, petulant, querulous, irritable, waspish, snappish, pettish, captious, cross, crusty, snarling,
testy, churlish, crabbed, acrimonious, spleeny, ill-natured, ill-tempered.
- 2. Discontented, fretful, captious.
- 3. Self-willed, stubborn, obstinate, headstrong, froward.
- 4. Silly, childish, thoughtless, trifling.
Pelagian, Pelagic, a. Oceanic, marine, of the ocean.
Pelargonium, n. (Bot.) Stork’s bill.
Pelf, n. Money. riches, lucre, mammon, gain, wealth (contemptuous term).
Pellicle, n. Film, thin skin, thin coating, crust.
Pell-mell, ad. Confusedly, irregularly, disorderly, in confusion, in disorder, helter-skelter, at sixes and sevens.
Pellucid, a. Clear, limpid, crystalline, bright, lucid, translucent, diaphanous.