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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.
Attention is called to the uncouth Mr. Roth, whose effluviations are so juvenalianly unspeakable that I cannot bear to utter their "title."
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.
This Melrose Place- style soap about aspiring Olympic athletes is deemed the most uncouth of the new teen and twentysomething shows.
But the unrest they inspired prompted the Tokugawa government to move them all here, to a guarded compound on the village flats — ostensibly to guarantee their safety, but more importantly to contain the contamination of their uncouth ways and ideas.
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