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- [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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