pet·u·lan·cy /-lən(t)si/
鬧氣;性急;傲慢
Pet·u·lance Pet·u·lan·cy n. The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor. “The petulancy of our words.”
Like pride in some, and like petulance in others. --Clarendon.
The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown. --Cowper.
Syn: -- Petulance, Peevishness. -- Peevishness implies the permanence of a sour, fretful temper; petulance implies temporary or capricious irritation.
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