EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR PEEVE
Paste this, Fuscus, in your hat:Not a pesky thing can peeve me.
Brickbats mingle with bouquetsShied at my devoted cranium.Does it peeve yours truly?
Of course I know you don't mean it—you're simply hot and tired, and trying to work off your peeve on me.
WORD ORIGIN
1907 (implied in peeved), back-formation from peevish. As a noun, attested by 1910. Related: Peeved; peeving; peeves.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR PEEVE
irk
verbaggravate; rub the wrong wayirked
verbaggravate; rub the wrong wayirritate
verbupset, angerirritates
verbupset, angernettle
verbprovoke, upsetnettles
verbprovoke, upsetpet peeve
nounpersonal hatepique
verboffend, provoke- absorb
- affront
- annoy
- arouse
- bother
- bug
- displease
- egg on
- exasperate
- excite
- fire up
- gall
- galvanize
- get
- get a rise out of
- get under skin
- give a hard time
- give the business
- goad
- goose
- grab
- ignite
- incense
- irk
- irritate
- kindle
- make waves
- miff
- mortify
- motivate
- move
- nettle
- offend
- peeve
- prick
- put out
- quicken
- rile
- rouse
- spur
- stimulate
- sting
- stir
- vex
- whet
- work up
- wound
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