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  1. 1. a. Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish. Source: opted
  3. 3. adj. very irritable Source: wordnet
  4. 4. 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. Source: webster

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