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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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