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单词 waspish
释义 wasp·ish
\-pish, -pēsh\ adjective
Etymology: wasp (I) + -ish
1.
 a. : resembling a wasp in behavior; especially : easily irritated : quick to take offence : snappish, testy
  < witty and waspish and said whatever came into his head about his colleagues — Frank O'Connor >
  < his answers were crisp, though he could become waspish when annoyed — H.F. & Katharine Pringle >
 b. : marked by irritability or petulance
  < the fourth-raters who use a staff captain's armlet as an excuse for waspish display of minor power — Fred Majdalany >
2. : resembling a wasp in form; especially : slightly built
 < the grim, black spars and waspish hull of a small man-of-war craft — Herman Melville >
Synonyms: see irritable
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