[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

waspish \wasp"ish\, a.
   1. resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a
      wasp.
      1913 webster

   2. quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by
      snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.
      1913 webster

            he was naturally a waspish and hot man. --bp. hall.
      1913 webster

            much do i suffer, much, to keep in peace
            this jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race.
                                                  --pope.
      1913 webster

   syn: snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy;
        peevish; captious.
        1913 webster -- wasp"ishly, adv. --
        wasp"ishness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
wasp"ishly wasp"ishness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
bristly prickly splenetic 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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