Meaning of WASPISH
| Pronunciation: | | 'wâspish
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| | Definition: | | [adj] very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues" |
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| | Synonyms: | | bristly, ill-natured, prickly, splenetic |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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