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English
Noun
pet peeve (plural pet peeves)
- (colloquial) Something that is personally annoying; a personal dislike.
Forgetting to finish a sentence with a period is one of my pet peeves
- 1970s, George Carlin, stand-up routine
- I don’t have pet peeves; I have major, psychotic hatreds.
Synonyms
Translations
something that is personally annoying; a personal dislike
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: inhokki (fi)
- French: bête noire (fr) f
- German: Hauptärgernis n, Lieblingsärgernis n, Lieblingsbeschwerde f, persönliche Abneigung f
- Hebrew: שנאת מחמד (he)
- Hungarian: bögyében lévő dolog, leginkább bosszantó/idegesítő/irritáló dolog, vörös posztó (literally “red rag”), (denouncing them) előszeretettel ostorozott hiányosság, előszeretettel (újra meg újra) (fel)emlegetett bosszúság
- Polish: idiosynkrazja (pl) f
- Portuguese: ódio de estimação m, implicância (pt) f, birra (pt) f, neura f
- Russian: пунктик (ru) (punktik)
- Spanish: molestia favorita f
- Turkish: bam teli (tr)
- Welsh: cas beth m
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See also
Further reading
- “pet peeve”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “pet peeve”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “pet peeve”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “pet peeve” (US) / “pet peeve” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.