pettishness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
pettishness
    n 1: a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper
         was well known to all his employees" [syn: {temper},
         {biliousness}, {irritability}, {peevishness},
         {pettishness}, {snappishness}, {surliness}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pettish \Pet"tish\, a. [From {Pet}.]
   Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper.
   "A pettish kind of humor." --Sterne. -- {Pet"tish*ly}, adv.
   -- {Pet"tish*ness}, n.
   [1913 Webster]
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