Where did the word ..... come form
 

Where did the word or saying pet peeve come from?? I've always wondered.. maybe some guy with the last name Peeve? :glugglug

Peeve: To cause to be annoyed or resentful.

I don't know it's origin....but I can understand why the term 'pet' peeve was brought into being....

Pet: An object of the affections.

It's an oxymoron if I've ever seen one...lol

agreed

sounds good to me, always wonder that myself

1393, peyvesshe "perverse, capricious, silly," of uncertain origin, possibly modeled on L. perversus "reversed, perverse," pp. of pervertere "to turn about" (see pervert).

Meaning "cross, fretful" first recorded c.1530.

The verb peeve is a 1908 back-formation;

pet peeve "the thing that provokes one most" is first attested 1919.