What is "pet peeve"

"thing that provokes one most," 1919, from pet (n.1) in the adjectival sense "especially cherished" (1826), here in jocular or ironic use with peeve (n.).

n. Something that is personally annoying; a personal dislike.

n. an opportunity for complaint that is seldom missed; "grammatical mistakes are his pet peeve"

A pet peeve or pet aversion is a minor annoyance that an individual identifies as particularly annoying to themself, to a greater degree than others may find.

Pet Peeve is the twenty-ninth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

Pet Peeve is the 88th one- reel animated Tom and Jerry short, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Kenneth Muse Ed Barge and Irven Spence, with backgrounds by Robert Gentle. It was released on November 20, 1954 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

This was the first Tom and Jerry cartoon to be released in CinemaScope and the second to be produced in the format (the first was Touché, Pussy Cat!, released a month later), which widened the cinema screen to a more expansive aspect ratio to compete against the growing popularity of television. The CinemaScope process required thicker and more defined ink lines around the characters, giving them a slightly more "modern" and less detailed appearance.

The cartoon is also the first to feature an owner of the house that is not Mammy Two Shoes, the African-American maid voiced by Lillian Randolph from the first cartoon Puss Gets the Boot (1940) up to and including 1952's Push-Button Kitty. Instead, Mammy was replaced with a white married couple.

A pet peeve is a minor annoyance that can instill great frustration in an individual.

Pet peeve may also refer to:

• Pet Peeve, a 1954 Tom and Jerry cartoon
• Pet Peeve (Xanth), the twenty-ninth book of the Xanth series