Annoyance: Colloq.
The crossword clue "Annoyance: Colloq." is answered by PEEVE, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 1962; first recorded in 1949. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PEEVE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PEEVE answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 1962; first recorded in 1949. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PEEVE
Every other clue in this collection answered by PEEVE, most used first.
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- Annoy - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Annoyance - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- "Pet" annoyance - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Pet ___ - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
- Tick off - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- Irk - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Source of annoyance - used 20 times, most recently in 2022
- Pet problem? - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Rub the wrong way - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Source of irritation - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
- Nettle - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Really annoy - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- "Pet" irritation - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Vex - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Vexation - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Pet complaint - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Pet ___ (grievance) - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Pet __ (ongoing annoyance) - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Airport annoyance - DELAY, used 16 times
- Dorm annoyance - SNORE, used 11 times
- Overact: Colloq. - EMOTE, used 11 times
- Abruptly: Colloq. - SPANG, used 10 times
- Glasses: Colloq. - SPECS, used 10 times
- Directly: Colloq. - SPANG, used 9 times
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