whats a pet peeve?

Answer 1

something that gets on you nerves really bad. mine is people cracking their knuckles. i hate that!

Answer 2

A pet peeve (or pet hate) is a minor annoyance that can instill extreme frustration in an individual. Typically each person has several pet peeves that aggravate him more than the average person. Another person may not react as negatively or at all to the same circumstance.

The term originated from the word 'peeve.' A 'peeve,' meaning something that is particularly irritating or annoying, is a relatively recent word. Its first printed usage was in 1911. The term is a back formation from a 14th-century word: 'peevish,' meaning ornery or ill-tempered.

The phrase 'pet peeve,' a uniquely personal irritant, first appeared in print in 1919.

Pet peeves are typically of common occurrences and a person may encounter his pet peeve very often. An example of this would be someone not using his turn signal while driving; while some drivers feel frustrated when another driver does not use his turn signal, other drivers do not care very much. Many pet peeves associated with driving can result in road rage, where the person who feels peeved seeks some sort of retribution for the action.

Often a pet peeve will seem illogical to others. For example a supervisor may have a pet peeve about people leaving the lid on the copier up and react angrily. That same supervisor may witness employees coming into work late, and not feel any annoyance whatsoever.

Answer 3

pet peeve (n.) Informal Something about which one frequently complains; a particular personal vexation.

A pet peeve is a minor annoyance that can instill extreme frustration in an individual. Typically each person has several pet peeves that aggravate them more than the average person.

Answer 4

"Peeve" means annoy. So a "pet peeve" is some annoying thing that may be annoying only to you and not others. Like the annoyance is your personal pet. Odd phrase

Answer 5

It's a undesirable Idiosyncrasy.

Its context implies that the owner of a pet peeve somehow nurtures the dislike.

It could equally be something you dislike about yourself that annoys you, as it could and usually is about someone else.

Answer 6

Something that annoys the living sh** out of you, that is done with enough regularity to become truly annoying to you. Tardiness is my pet peeve. Could you just wear a watch and be on time? Geez!

Answer 7

A pet peeve is something that irritates the living crud out of you consistently. Peeve is to be irritable, pet in the sense that it's your "favorite"....in that it is one of your most reliable sources of irritation.

Answer 8

Something that particularly annoys you, that doesn't necessarily bother others quite so much. Something the really "gets your goat", so to speak.

Some of my "pet peeves" -
*Not refilling the toilet paper roll after you've used the last of it.
*Not putting your grocery cart in the "cart corral", but just leaving it in the parking lot.
*Kids/husband leaving their shoes laying all over the house. Grrrr..... ; )

Answer 9

The real question is, has anyone ever seen a wild peeve?

Answer 10

a pet peeve is something that really gets on your nerves such as scratching your nails on a chalk board or people chewing food with their mouths open.

Answer 11

it is something that gets on your last nerve. It could be disorganization or foot thumping. It would be your obsessive compulsive disorder trigger.