WASPISH

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

Etymology

Adjective

waspish (comparative more waspish, superlative most waspish)

Suggestive of the behaviour of a wasp.

Spiteful or irascible.

Synonyms

• (spiteful or irascible): irascible, spiteful

Etymology

Adjective

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