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waspishness
(encz) | waspishness,jízlivost n: Zdeněk Brož |
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.
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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.
[1913 Webster]
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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