bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish
(adjective) very irritable; “bristly exchanges between the White House and the press”; “he became prickly and spiteful”; “witty and waspish about his colleagues”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
waspish (comparative more waspish, superlative most waspish)
Suggestive of the behaviour of a wasp.
Spiteful or irascible.
• (spiteful or irascible): irascible, spiteful
WASPish (comparative more WASPish, superlative most WASPish)
Suggestive of the behaviour of a WASP.
Source: Wiktionary
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 June 2025
(noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
