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.
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.
