Waspish

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.

Adj.

1.

waspish - very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues" Synonyms: bristly, prickly, splenetic

bearish, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, contrary, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, cussed, disagreeable, excitable, feisty, fretful, huffish, huffy, impatient, irascible, malicious, mean, ornery, peevish, perverse, pettish, querulous, sharp, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, ugly, vinegarish, vinegary

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