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. |
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" |