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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.

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

Noun.

Adj.

Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; quick to resent any trifling affront.

Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race.