Found 2 items, similar to Waspishly.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: waspish 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Waspishly Waspish \Wasp"ish\, a. 1. Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp. [1913 Webster] 2. Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish. [1913 Webster] He was naturally a waspish and hot man. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race. --Pope. [1913 Webster] Syn: Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy; peevish; captious. [1913 Webster] -- Wasp"ish*ly, adv. -- Wasp"ish*ness, n. [1913 Webster]