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Definition of Waspish

Waspish
Waspish 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.

Meaning of Waspish from wikipedia

- Look up WASP or wasp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A wasp is a type of flying insect. Wasp may also refer to: Several Marvel characters, including:...
- re****tion for having inherited her father's famously sharp tongue and waspish wit". Of her early public role, she has said: "It's not just about 'can...
- for being "terribly kind to plain girls with nice manners and extremely waspish to pretty ones with nasty manners". After graduating, he worked for the...
- was still legally married to Valentine Castlerosse at the time, the most waspish gossip columnist of the 1930s and the very last person an adulterer would...
- for harp strings and a chorus of robins. A fight breaks out between a waspish-looking hollow tree and a younger, healthier tree for the attention of...
- miscellaneous paragraphs under a symbolic drawing of 'Granny Herald' whose waspish features bore a resemblance to his own. He retired in February 1961. Ramsey...
- make the best of unhappy marriages. They also reluctantly take on the waspish, elderly Mrs. Fisher and the stunning but aloof Lady Caroline Dester to...
- "The Wrights' Biplane" "****ertive" "Evil Tendencies Cancel" "Pertinax" "Waspish" "One Guess" "The Hardship of Accounting" "Not All There" "In Divés' Dive"...
-  1960 (1960-10-21) Tod and Buz arrive in New Orleans where they encounter a waspish woman (Betty Field), a band of smugglers and a parrot-fever epidemic. 4...
- resentful, choleric, jealous, peevish, sullen, endless wrangles, whiny, waspish, snappish. Insular paranoid (including avoidant features) Reclusive, self-sequestered...