Annoy, irritate

Usage examples of peeve.

Tanaquil put out her hand to stroke the peeve, but it evaded her and plopped down into the room.

The herbal tea spread across the floor, and the peeve drank it, sneezing and snuffling.

The peeve growled around the bone and lashed its tail, making a thumping noise on the shutters.

Was the burrow among the roofs, or had the peeve just decided to run up to her window on a whim?

The peeve might even have made a lair in one of the most disused of the chimneys.

The peeve had been running back and forth all morning, only pausing to drink from the cistern in the roof gulley.

When the little afternoon shadow of the hills came over them, and the peeve bounded in under the hollow hill shaped like a bridge, Tanaquil nodded.

Over among the tendons of the rock, the peeve excavated, sending up sprays of sand.

The sand might also give way entirely under Tanaquil and the peeve, casting them after.

The peeve was still industriously digging, shooting sand into the air, disappearing slowly down a hole.

The peeve fell only a foot, but Tanaquil leaned down and took hold of it.

And so Tanaquil saw properly that what the peeve had brought her, from the sand under the hill, was a horn.

Tanaquil knew the peeve was only interested in the parts for the unicorn.

As she labored over it in her room, the peeve had watched her from its lair under the bed, sometimes coming out to paddle across her tools and upset them.

And going to the bed she sat there and only gazed at the skeleton, while the peeve put its head out and gazed too, saucer-eyed.