There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
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
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