pet peeve

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

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.

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.