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 ] | 