Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal Something about which one frequently complains; a particular personal vexation.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. an opportunity for complaint that is seldom missed
Examples
“Awww," the three children and pet peeve said together.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pet peeve’.
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the joy of copyediting
Words related to the profession as practiced in various publishing fields, from journals, magazines, and newspapers to books. Professional copyeditors (or "subeditors" if you drive on the left) are...
typographical booger, Oxford comma, stylebook, consistency, style fetishism, subeditor, Hart's Rules, Chicago Manual of..., fact-checking, pet peeve, stet, peever and 3 more...
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X is my favorite Y
I used to be quite annoyed by such phrases, so here we go, do your worst, post your Ys.
Only the Ys please.metasyntactic var..., typeface, onomatopoeia, indent style, prime number, sun protection fa..., modifier key, grain, pet peeve, water hardness, unit of temperature, unit of length and 10 more...
missworld i hate this word too! Jun 17, 2009
super-samuel i hate this word May 6, 2008