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Definition of Waspishness

Waspishness
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 Waspishness 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:...
- resentful, choleric, jealous, peevish, sullen, endless wrangles, whiny, waspish, snappish. Insular paranoid (including avoidant features) Reclusive, self-sequestered...
- 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...
- the normal attire for polo players. As he desired to exude a certain "WASPishness" in his clothes, initially adopting the style of clothiers like Brooks...
- for being "terribly kind to plain girls with nice manners and extremely waspish to pretty ones with nasty manners". After graduating, he worked for the...
- Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press. "'Insolent' Churchill, 'ignorant' Kitchener: waspish wartime diaries of Margot Asquith". The Guardian. 8 June 2014. Retrieved...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Financial Times, Sarah Hemming states "It’s obliquely timely, then, often waspishly funny, ultimately very moving and beautifully delivered by the superb...