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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[From

Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper.

“A pettish kind of humor.”

Sterne.

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Pet′tish-ly

adv.

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Pet′tish-ness

Noun.

Adj.

[from pet.] Fretful; peevish; subject to freaks of ill temper.

pettish ‎(comparative more pettish, superlative most pettish)