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pet peeve (plural pet peeves)

1. (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.

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• bugbear
• pet hate

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[edit] something that is personally annoying; a personal dislike

Chinese: Mandarin: 討厭的事情 / 讨厌的事情 (tǎoyàn de shìqíng) Danish: yndlingsaversion c 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 Italian: piccolo cruccio m Polish: idiosynkrazja (pl) f Portuguese: ódio de estimação m, implicância (pt) f, birra (pt) f, neura (pt) f Russian: пунктик (ru) (punktik), любимая мозоль (ljubimaja mozolʹ) Spanish: molestia favorita f Turkish: bam teli (tr) Welsh: cas beth m

See also

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• get on one's nerves
• peeved
• push someone's buttons
• red rag

Further reading

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• “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.

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