Vexing, embittering; hence, vexation, crossness. Sc. Obsolete.

Waywardness, stubbornness; impudence; petulance; an instance of this. Now rare.

Petty bad temper; querulousness; fretfulness.

The quality of being pettish; peevishness, petulance; an instance of this.

the quality or condition of being fretful.

The quality of being huffy: †(a) boastfulness, blustering, arrogance (obsolete); (b) readiness to take offence or show oneself offended.

Childish impatience or sulkiness; irritability, tetchiness; = petulance, n. 2a.

Peevishness, ill-humour.

Childish impatience, irritation, or sulkiness; irritability, bad-temperedness, tetchiness.

figurative. Anger, ill temper, peevishness. Cf. choler, n. adj., gall, n.1, spleen, n.

Bilious quality or condition; figurative peevishness, ill-temper.

pettish behaviour.

As a mass noun: belligerence, peevishness (rare). As a count noun: a fit of temper; a sulk.