| slovo | definícia |
waspish
(encz) | waspish,jízlivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
waspish
(encz) | waspish,uštěpačný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Waspish
(gcide) | Waspish \Wasp"ish\, a.
1. Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a
wasp.
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2. Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by
snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.
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He was naturally a waspish and hot man. --Bp. Hall.
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Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace
This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race.
--Pope.
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Syn: Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy;
peevish; captious.
[1913 Webster] -- Wasp"ish*ly, adv. --
Wasp"ish*ness, n.
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waspish
(wn) | waspish
adj 1: very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White
House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful";
"witty and waspish about his colleagues" [syn: bristly,
prickly, splenetic, waspish] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
waspish
(encz) | waspish,jízlivý adj: Zdeněk Brožwaspish,uštěpačný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
waspishly
(encz) | waspishly,jízlivě adv: Jaroslav Šedivýwaspishly,kousavě adv: Jaroslav Šedivýwaspishly,uštěpačně adv: Jaroslav Šedivý |
waspishness
(encz) | waspishness,jízlivost n: Zdeněk Brož |
bristly prickly snappish splenetic waspish
(gcide) | Ill-natured \Ill`-na"tured\, a.
1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition;
surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed;
-- of people; as, an ill-natured person; an ill-natured
disagreeable old man. Opposite of good-natured.
[Narrower terms: {argumentative, contentious,
disputatious, disputative, litigious : {atrabilious,
bilious, dyspeptic, liverish : {bristly, prickly,
snappish, splenetic, waspish : {cantankerous, crotchety,
ornery : {choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-headed,
hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered : {crabbed,
crabby, cross, fussy, fussbudgety, grouchy, grumpy,
bad-tempered, ill-tempered}: {cranky, fractious,
irritable, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, testy,
tetchy, techy : {crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored,
ill-humoured}: {dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose,
saturnine, sour, sullen : {feisty, touchy : {huffish,
sulky}: {misanthropic, misanthropical : {misogynous :
shirty, snorty ill-tempered or annoyed): {shrewish,
nagging, vixenish : surly, ugly ] Also See: {unpleasant.
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2. Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful. "The
ill-natured task refuse." --Addison.
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3. Intractable; not yielding to culture. [R.] "Ill-natured
land." --J. Philips.
3. not to one's liking; unpleasant; disagreeable. Opposite of
agreeable. [WordNet sense 2] [Narrower terms: {annoying,
galling, chafing, irritating, nettlesome, pesky,
pestiferous, pestilent, plaguy, plaguey, teasing,
vexatious, vexing}; {nerve-racking, nerve-wracking,
stressful, trying ]
Syn: disagreeable.
[WordNet 1.5] -- Ill`-na"tured*ly, adv. --
Ill`-na"tured*ness, n.
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Waspishly
(gcide) | Waspish \Wasp"ish\, a.
1. Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a
wasp.
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2. Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by
snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.
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He was naturally a waspish and hot man. --Bp. Hall.
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Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace
This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race.
--Pope.
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Syn: Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy;
peevish; captious.
[1913 Webster] -- Wasp"ish*ly, adv. --
Wasp"ish*ness, n.
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Waspishness
(gcide) | Waspish \Wasp"ish\, a.
1. Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a
wasp.
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2. Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by
snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.
[1913 Webster]
He was naturally a waspish and hot man. --Bp. Hall.
[1913 Webster]
Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace
This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race.
--Pope.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy;
peevish; captious.
[1913 Webster] -- Wasp"ish*ly, adv. --
Wasp"ish*ness, n.
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waspish
(wn) | waspish
adj 1: very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White
House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful";
"witty and waspish about his colleagues" [syn: bristly,
prickly, splenetic, waspish] |
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