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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 peaceThis jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race.Pope.Syn. -- Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy; peevish; captious.-- Wasp"ish*ly, adv. -- Wasp"ish*ness, n.
The adjective has 1 senses
1. bristly,prickly,splenetic,waspish -- very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"
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