Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"