pet peeve

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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.

• bugbear
• pet hate

• “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.