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▸ adjective:  Constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters; fretful, whiny.
▸ adjective:  Quick to become bad-tempered or cross, especially due to insignificant matters; irritable, pettish, petulant.
▸ adjective:  (Canada, Northern England, figurative) Of weather: blustery, windy; also, of wind: cold and strong; bitter, sharp.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete)
▸ adjective:  Coy, modest.
▸ adjective:  Foolish, silly.
▸ adjective:  Harmful, injurious; also, mischievous; or malicious, spiteful.
▸ adjective:  Impulsive and unpredictable; capricious, fickle.
▸ adjective:  Obstinately in the wrong; perverse, stubborn.
▸ adjective:  Out of one's mind; mad.
▸ adjective:  Of a thing: evoking a feeling of distaste, horror, etc.
▸ adjective:  (Northern England) Clever, skilful.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete) Synonym of peevishly (“in a peevish manner: whiningly; irritably, petulantly; etc.”)





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