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Waspish
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.

Meaning of Waspish from wikipedia

- Look up WASP or wasp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A wasp is a type of flying insect. Wasp may also refer to: Several Marvel characters, including:...
- re****tion for having inherited her father's famously sharp tongue and waspish wit". Of her early public role, she has said: "It's not just about 'can...
- Huffington Post referred to Long's review as "not a review ... [but] a waspish response to other reviews." Richard Brody of The New Yorker included Moonlight...
- resentful, choleric, jealous, peevish, sullen, endless wrangles, whiny, waspish, snappish. Insular paranoid (including avoidant features) Reclusive, self-sequestered...
- Tuesday grew up sinful and perverse, while those born on a Wednesday were waspish in temper. A child born on Thursday, however, was sure to be of a peaceful...
- day forth, I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter, When you are waspish. The spleen, as a byword for melancholy, has also been considered an actual...
- make the best of unhappy marriages. They also reluctantly take on the waspish, elderly Mrs. Fisher and the stunning but aloof Lady Caroline Dester to...
- was still legally married to Valentine Castlerosse at the time, the most waspish gossip columnist of the 1930s and the very last person an adulterer would...
- described it as "hilarious, p****ionate, beautifully told, and memorably waspish." Piddock was married to producer Margaret Oberman from 1991 until 2004...
- miscellaneous paragraphs under a symbolic drawing of 'Granny Herald' whose waspish features bore a resemblance to his own. He retired in February 1961. Ramsey...