Noah Webster
Peevish
PEE'VISH, adjective
1. Fretful; petulant; apt to mutter and complain; easily vexed or fretted; querulous; hard to please.
She is peevish sullen, froward.
2. Expressing discontent and fretfulness.
I will not presume
To send such peevish tokens to a king.
3. Silly; childish.