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
6 May 2024
(noun) freedom of choice; “liberty of opinion”; “liberty of worship”; “liberty--perfect liberty--to think or feel or do just as one pleases”; “at liberty to choose whatever occupation one wishes”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
