Apparently “a peeve” is a Scottish slang word for having a lot to drink ,going on a bender or getting blootered, although I’ve not heard that myself, but it’s alternative meaning and the one that the daily writing prompt refers to is something mildly irritating or that causes you a minor inconvenience.
I mean I think it’s healthy to express an outlet of irritation , so my top three peevish moments at the moment are.
Packaging on products that are just designed to be impossible to open. Cardboard, plastic , glue and flaps that rip rather than open. Hidden pieces of tape or sellotape that are impossible to lift with your fingernail and you have to go and get a scissors which inevitably are blunt.
Zips on dresses that I can’t do up myself and the hubby is in the shower and I have to wait until he comes out to get the zip pulled up and then he acts as if he’s doing me such a big favour and I have to wait until he dries himself thoroughly so he can get a good grip of the zip. Irritating!
The Sky TV remote, the buttons are funny and rubbery and never seem to work first time.
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Peeve is not a commonly used word. Indeed, it’s a long time since I heard anyone say it or even write it. I obviously don’t move in the right digital circles. It’s a good word in a bad way and perhaps I will try and integrate it somehow. Seems a shame to waste it. Or should I say it would be peevish to waste it?.
So perhaps we should start with a definition, as a verb, it’s to annoy or irritate. Certainly plenty of things in daily life that will do that. Though I think to peeve you really have to be at the extreme of annoying or irritating without actually doing physical or emotional damage. Possibly there are many other words that would do that which is maybe why peeve has became less frequently used.
As a noun , “peeve” is a source of annoyance, there is even an example of one such peeve on the internet.
“another peeve of mine is these so called reality shows.”
In honour of the Internet, I will say that yes that is one of my peeves.
Reality shows are for losers, make your own reality and make it yours no matter what it is. Whatever happens life is not a voyeurs game, you can pick on a sore and it will become septic and can make you very ill. Reality shows are a very specific form of the entertainment machine and a classic example of picking on sores.
If you stand and watch someone bandage someone else’s sore and watch it get better, what you have learnt maybe it’s good to cure and make better, but do you understand the mechanics of how that bandage worked or what medicines they used or the care that went into the cure and the difficulties that the curer faced. No because you are a voyeur and everything happened in a thirty minute time-slot on demand.
Thank you internet, one down , two to go.
Hysterically, I am struggling to find the other two, as annoyance and irritants are just maybe not that important to me. There is just too many things happen that are positive to be peevish about much. Perhaps that is why peevish almost sounds like a Victorian word to me and why has gone out of use. Maybe the Victorians were more peevish than us.
“Barnaby was a peevish scamp”. Poor Barnaby.
Anyway, I suppose I get peevish if anyone around me says they are bored. As there is so much to be done that can improve things for everyone. Even if it’s just saying hello to someone.
One to go! It peeves me to see too many goals set for the sake of it and targets. Targets are are very often wrong and when they are, they can skew the planet and it’s people. It’s more the arrogance of the people who do the setting that peeves me. The disastrous effects their beliefs can have on others goes way beyond me being peevish.
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