Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Waspish

Waspish , adjective

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