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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Waspish \Wasp"ish\, a.
1. Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a
wasp.
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2. Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by
snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.
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He was naturally a waspish and hot man. --Bp. Hall.
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Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace
This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race.
--Pope.
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Syn: Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy;
peevish; captious.
[1913 Webster] -- {Wasp"ish*ly}, adv. --
{Wasp"ish*ness}, n.
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