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