'Waspish' definitions:
Definition of 'waspish'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Waspish'
From: GCIDE
- Waspish \Wasp"ish\, a.
- 1. Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish. [1913 Webster]
- He was naturally a waspish and hot man. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]
- Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy; peevish; captious. [1913 Webster] -- {Wasp"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Wasp"ish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'waspish'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bearish,
- bitchy,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- churlish,
- contrary,
- crabbed,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crotchety,
- crusty,
- cussed,
- disagreeable,
- excitable,
- feisty,
- fractious,
- fretful,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- impatient,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- malicious,
- mean,
- ornery,
- peevish,
- perverse,
- pettish,
- petulant,
- querulous,
- sharp,
- snappish,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- testy,
- ugly,
- vinegarish,
- vinegary