Wasp″ish (?), 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.
Syn. — Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy; peevish; captious.
— Wasp″ish‐ly, adv. — Wasp″ish‐ness, n.