2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waspish \Wasp"ish\, a.
1. Resembling a wasp in form having a slender waist, like a
wasp.
2. Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by
snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.
He was naturally a waspish and hot man. --Bp. Hall.
Much do I suffer, much to keep in peace This
jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race. --Pope.
Syn: Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy;
peevish; captious. -- {Wasp"ish*ly}, adv --
{Wasp"ish*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
waspish
adj : very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House
and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful";
"witty and waspish about his colleagues" [syn: {bristly},
{prickly}, {splenetic}]
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