complaintive vs peevish

complaintive

adj
  • Tending to complain, characterized by complaining. 

peevish

adj
  • Constantly complaining, whining; childishly fretful. 

  • Characterized by or exhibiting petty bad temper, bad-tempered, moody, cross. 

  • Easily annoyed, especially by things that are not important; irritable, querulous. 

How often have the words complaintive and peevish occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )