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waspish a. 如黄蜂的,腰细的,易怒的 如黄蜂的,腰细的,易怒的 waspish adj 1: very irritable; " bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; " he became prickly and spiteful"; " witty and waspish about his colleagues" [ synonym: { bristly}, { prickly}, { splenetic}, { waspish}] 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] 40 Moby Thesaurus words for " waspish": 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
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