WASPish
adjEtymology From WASP + -ish.
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Suggestive of the behaviour of a WASP.
waspish
adjalso spelled WASPishUK /ˈwɒs.pɪʃ/ · US /ˈwɑ.spɪʃ/
Etymology From wasp + -ish.
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Suggestive of the behaviour of a wasp.
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Figuratively Spiteful or irascible.
- Svveet Hony-Comb, don't be ſo VVaſpiſh: […]1702, [Colley] Cibber, She Wou’d, and She Wou’d Not, or The Kind Impostor. A Comedy. […], London: […] William Turner […], and John Nutt, […], published 1703, →OCLC, Act III, page 30:
- Always, he radiated an air of soigné self-confidence: he could be amiable in his opinions or waspish, but he never betrayed a flicker of doubt about what he thought.1997, Henry Louis Gates Jr., “The Passing of Anatole Broyard”, in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, New York: Random House, page 181: