irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance, choler
(noun) an irritable petulant feeling
Source: WordNet® 3.1
petulance (countable and uncountable, plural petulances)
(obsolete) Rudeness, insolence. [16th–19th c.]
(obsolete) An insolent remark or act. [17th–19th c.]
Childish impatience or sulkiness; testiness. [from 18th c.]
• (childish impatience or sulkiness) moodiness, caprice, capriciousness, tetchiness, arbitrariness, viciousness
Source: Wiktionary
Pet"u*lance, Pet"u*lan*cy, n. Etym: [L. petulania: cf. F. pétulance. See Petulant.]
Definition: The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor. "The petulancy of our words." B. Jonson. Like pride in some, and like petulance in others. Clarendon. The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown. Cowper.
Syn.
– Petulance, Peevishness.
– Peevishness implies the permanence of a sour, fretful temper; petulance implies temporary or capricious irritation.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
11 May 2025
(noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
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