one's pet peeve
1pet peeve — the thing that provokes one most, 1919, from PET (Cf. pet) (1) in the adj. sense “especially cherished” (1826), here in jocular or ironic use with PEEVE (Cf. peeve) …
2Pet Peeve (Xanth) — Infobox Book | name = Pet Peeve image caption = cover of Pet Peeve author = Piers Anthony country = USA language = English cover artist = Darrell K. Sweet genre = Fantasy novel publisher = Tor Books release date = 2005 media type = Print… …
3Pet Peeve (1954 film) — Infobox Hollywood cartoon cartoon name = Pet Peeve series = Tom and Jerry caption = The title card of Pet Peeve director = William Hanna Joseph Barbera story artist = William Hanna Joseph Barbera animator = Ed Barge Irven Spence Kenneth Muse… …
4Pet Peeve — Ein Pet Peeve vieler Frauen ist die Gewohnheit ihres Partners, nach dem Pinkeln den Toilettensitz nicht wieder herunterzuklappen. Unter einem Pet Peeve (engl. [ pɛt piːv]; deutsch etwa: „Lieblings Ärgernis“) versteht man im populären… …
5pet peeve — noun an opportunity for complaint that is seldom missed grammatical mistakes are his pet peeve • Hypernyms: ↑complaint * * * a particular and often continual annoyance; personal bugbear: This train service is one of my pet peeves. [1915 20,… …
6pet peeve — noun Something that is personally annoying; a personal dislike. Ending questions with a period is one of my pet peeves. Syn: pet hate …
7pet peeve — a particular and often continual annoyance; personal bugbear: This train service is one of my pet peeves. [1915 20, Amer.] * * * …
8pet — pet1 [pet] n. [orig. Scot dial., prob. back form. < ME pety, small: see PETTY] 1. an animal that is tamed or domesticated and kept as a companion or treated with fondness 2. a person who is treated with particular affection or indulgence;… …
9peeve — n. one s pet peeve * * * [piːv] one s pet peeve …
10pet — pet1 [ pet ] noun count ** 1. ) an animal or bird that you keep in your home and take care of a ) only before noun kept as a pet or relating to pets: a pet dog/rabbit pet owners a pet shop 2. ) BRITISH SPOKEN used for talking to someone in a… …
