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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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