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waspish |
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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