What is the meaning of Peevish?

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(a.) Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
(a.) Silly; childish; trifling.
(a.) Expressing fretfulness and discontent or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.

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