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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "waspish":
bearish, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, contrary,
crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, cussed,
disagreeable, excitable, feisty, fractious, fretful, huffish,
huffy, impatient, irascible, irritable, malicious, mean, ornery,
peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, querulous, sharp, snappish,
spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, testy, ugly, vinegarish, vinegary
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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