Waspish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or suggestive of a wasp.
  • adj. Easily irritated or annoyed; irascible.
  • adj. Indicative of irritation, annoyance, or spite: a waspish remark.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Suggestive of the behaviour of a wasp.
  • adj. Spiteful or irascible.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.
  • adj. Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Like a wasp in any way.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. very irritable
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    snappish    testy    irascible    petulant    captious    peevish    irritable    spiteful   
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