peeve

Plural: peeves

Noun

• an annoyed or irritated mood
• An annoyance or grievance.

Verb

Verb Forms: peeved, peeving, peeves

• To annoy or irritate someone.
• cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful
• To annoy; vex.

Examples

• He was peeved to note that his hard work had been undone.
• It really did PEEVE him when his opponent stole his triple-word score.
• stylistic peeve

Synonyms

Idioms:, aggravate, annoy, annoyance, antagonize, bedevil, boil someone's piss, bother, botherate, bug, burn up, chap someone's hide, cheese off, devil, disgruntle, exasperate, faff, frustrate, get, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's Irish up, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get up, give someone the shits, grate, grievance, grind one's gears, grotch, hack off, harsh one's mellow, hassle, inconvenience, irk, irritate, irritation, jazz, molest, mommick, nark, nuisance, palaver, pee off, peeve, persecute, pique, piss off, plague, provoke, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rankle, rile, rile up, roil, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, sting, storm, tee off, test someone's patience, tick off, torque off, trouble, try one's patience, vex, vexation, wind up

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pet peeve

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