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waspish

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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Waspish \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.

資料來源 : WordNet®

waspish
     adj : 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}]
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