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Peevish , from which the noun and verb peeve appear to have been back-formed, has been used since the 14th century with a wide variety of senses, including `childish, silly, wayward, thoughtless, froward, uncouth, perverse' (which some think is the source), and even `witty.
Defending either the expansion of the number of baseball teams beyond the current 30 or the movement of franchises to new cities is, of course, enough to get you branded as an uncouth money-grubber.
This Melrose Place- style soap about aspiring Olympic athletes is deemed the most uncouth of the new teen and twentysomething shows.
Doesn't this suggest that tourists are simply getting better at going places, and that it's time to dispense with the stereotype that tourists are uncouth, unchic, and generally unbearable?
In effect, the name was an ironic compliment, a friendly jest passed from one scruffy and uncouth people (the traders themselves were hardly known for their dainty manicures and designer coiffures) to another.