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in a pet
Offence at being or feeling slighted; a fit of peevishness or ill humour from this cause, (now) esp. a childish sulk. Frequently in in a pet. Also to take (the) pet: to take offence, to become bad-tempered or sulky (now rare, perhaps obsolete).
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > peevishness > be or become peevish [verb (intransitive)]
to take (the) pet1590
pet1629
tiff1727
girn1837
gummidge1889
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [noun] > fit of
gloominga1400
terret1515
momurdotesc1540
the sullens1580
pirr1581
pet1590
snuff1592
mulligrubs1599
mumps1599
geea1605
mood1609
miff1623
tetch1623
frumps1671
strunt1721
hump1727
tiff1727
tift1751
huff1757
tig1773
tout1787
sulk1792
twita1825
fantigue1825
fuff1834
grumps1844
spell1856
the grumbles1861
grouch1895
snit1939
mardy1968
moody1969
strop1970
sull1972
cream puff1985
mard1998
1590 T. Lodge Rosalynde: Euphues Golden Legacie f. 41v Some while they thought he had taken some word vnkindly, and had taken the pet.
c1598 King James VI & I Basilicon Doron (1944) I. 84 Feare not thaire orping nor taking the pett [v.r. pet] als lang as ye reule ueill.
1606 G. Chapman Monsieur D'Oliue ii. i Fled backe as it came and went away in Pett.
1640 Whole Bk. Psalmes: ‘Bay Psalm Bk.’ §10 Jonas took pet at the withering of the gourd.
1654 R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1842) III. 265 I am not so easily subject to take the pett.
1660 S. Pepys Diary 6 Dec. (1970) I. 311 Which did vex me..and so I took occasion to go up and to bed in a pett.
1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 199 Who takes Pett at things that are lightly said.
1731 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd: Sang iii, in Poems (new ed.) II. 222 The dawted Bairn thus takes the pet, Nor eats tho' hunger crave.
1785 C. Dibdin Liberty-Hall ii. iii. 26 She is this instant gone, and in a perfect pet, I can tell you, at my entering the lists as your champion.
1830 W. Scott Jrnl. 23 May (1946) 98 About a year ago I took the pet at my diary, chiefly becaus[e] I thought it made me abominably selfish.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale 62/2 She tuk th' pet an wodn't cum.
1894 R. H. Elliot Gold in Mysore 102 They [sc. tigers] take the pet in a case of failure and go off in disgust.
1944 K. Tynan Let. 26 Jan. (1994) i. 29 In a pet (for it much displeases me to be disturbed as I eat) I brusquely ripped open the envelope.
1994 Amer. Spectator Oct. 37/2 I hear America whining, crybaby to the world. I behold my country in a pet beefing, carping, crabbing, bitching, sniveling.
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