All peeve synonyms
peeve
P p verb peeve
- get someone's goat β to cause annoyance to someone
- fuddle β to muddle or confuse: a jumble of sounds to fuddle the senses.
- give the business β an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- irritate β to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- chagrin β Chagrin is a feeling of disappointment, upset, or annoyance, perhaps because of your own failure.
- in-convenience β the quality or state of being inconvenient.
- make waves β a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
- hacked β to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- get one's goat β any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.
- gall β (Pizi) 1840?β94, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux: a major chief in the battle of Little Bighorn.
- heat up β the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- bummed β depressed, upset, distressed, annoyed, etc.
- disgruntle β to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
- nettle β any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs. Compare nettle family.
- fret β to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
- in flames β to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
- ask for it β to put a question to; inquire of: I asked him but he didn't answer.
- annoy β If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
- grate β a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- give a hard time β a period of difficulties or hardship.
- get in one's hair β to annoy one
- goosed β any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
- irk β to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
- fire up β start ignition of
- distress β great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- get a rise out of β to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- miff β petulant displeasure; ill humor.
- hacking β a rack for drying food, as fish.
- bumming β a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- get β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- get to β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- aggravate β If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
- exasperate β Irritate intensely; infuriate.
- got to β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- fuddled β Confused or stupefied, especially as a result of drinking alcohol.
- get on one's nerves β one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.
- goose β any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
- dissatisfy β to cause to be displeased, especially by failing to provide something expected or desired.
- displease β to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy: His reply displeased the judge.
- distempered β Art. a technique of decorative painting in which glue or gum is used as a binder or medium to achieve a mat surface and rapid drying. (formerly) the tempera technique.
- burn up β If something burns up or if fire burns it up, it is completely destroyed by fire or strong heat.
- gravel β small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.
- fuddling β Present participle of fuddle.
- do a number on β a numeral or group of numerals.
noun peeve
- flareup β a sudden flaring up of flame or light.
- despites β in spite of; notwithstanding.
- grudge β a feeling of ill will or resentment: to hold a grudge against a former opponent.
- bone to pick β (usually with with) An item of disagreement to complain about or resolve.
- flare up β to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.