资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pettish \Pet"tish\, a. [From {Pet}.]
   Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper.
   ``A pettish kind of humor.'' --Sterne. -- {Pet"tish*ly}, adv.
   -- {Pet"tish*ness}, n.

资料来源 : WordNet®

pettishness
     n : a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was
         well known to all his employees" [syn: {temper}, {biliousness},
          {irritability}, {peevishness}, {snappishness}, {surliness}]