A Queer Expression

Last summer we heard on the Maine coast the following phrase: "Come, i now, don't peeve!" meaning "Don't I be peevish" or "Don't fret." Has any reader in New Hampshire or Vermont heard this verb in familiar use? We do not find it in the English dialect dictionaries that are at hand, nor is it in the pamphlets of the American dialect society. Ray says "peevish" in the north country dialect means "witty, su'útle," and in certain English countriea "peevish." means "foolish,