waspishadj.¹

Brit.

/ˈwɒspɪʃ/, U.S.

/ˈwɑspɪʃ/

Etymology: < wasp n.¹ + -ish suffix¹.

1. Pertaining to or resembling a wasp or some characteristic of it.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [adjective] > unpleasant

loatha700

unsweetc890

grimlyc893

unquemeOE

un-i-quemeOE

evila1131

sourc1175

illc1220

unhightlyc1275

unwelcomec1325

unblithec1330

unnetc1330

unrekena1350

unagreeablec1374

uncouthc1380

unsavouryc1380

displeasantc1386

unlikinga1398

ungaina1400

crabbedc1400

unlovelyc1400

displeasing1401

eschewc1420

unsoot1420

mislikinga1425

unlikelya1425

unlustya1425

fastidiousc1425

unpleasantc1430

displicable1471

unthankfulc1475

displeasant1481

uneasy1483

unpleasinga1500

unfaring1513

badc1530

malpleasant?1533

noisome1542

thanklessa1547

ungrate1548

untoothsome1548

ungreeable1550

contrary1561

disagreeable1570

offensible1575

offensive1576

naughty1578

delightlessa1586

undelightful1585

unwisheda1586

unpleasurable1587

undelightsomec1595

dislikeful1596

disliking1596

ungrateful1596

unsweet?a1600

distastive1600

impleasing1602

distasting1603

distasteful1607

unsightly1608

undelectable1610

disgustful1611

unrelishing1611

waspisha1616

undeliciousa1618

unwished-for1617

disrelishing1631

unenjoyed1643

unjoyous1645

mirya1652

unwelcomed1651

unpleasivea1656

sweet1656

injucund1657

insuave1657

unpalatable1658

unhandsome1660

undesirable1667

disrelishablea1670

uncouthsome1684

shocking1703

nasty1705

embittering1746

indelectable1751

undelightinga1774

nice and ——1796

unenjoyablea1797

ungenial1796

uncomplacent1805

ungracious1807

bitter1810

rotten1813

uncongenial1813

quarrelsome1825

grimy1833

nice1836

unrelished1863

bloody1867

unbewitching1876

ferocious1877

displeasurable1879

rebarbative1892

charming1893

crook1898

naar1900

peppery1901

negative1902

poisonous1906

off-putting1935

unsympathetic1937

piggy1942

funky1946

umpty1948

pooey1967

minging1970

Scrooge-like1976

sucky1984

stank1991

stanky1991

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > [adjective] > middle of trunk or waist > types of

long-waisted1576

short-waisted1590

side-waisted1599

waspy1658

wasp-waisted1775

waspish1866

nip-waisted1899

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 210 If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 90 Thy waspish tongue will never fail To prat, to scold, revile and rail.

1822 W. Scott Halidon Hill i. ii. 57 Let a body of your chosen horse Make execution on yon waspish archers.

1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. iv. 88 Her waist showed none of those waspish proportions.

1915 B. Digby in Travel July 22/1 In the dock lay a pair of waspish, one-funnelled steamers.

a. esp. Quick to resent any trifling injury or affront; irascible, petulantly spiteful.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [adjective] > irascible (of person)

hotOE

wooda1250

hastivec1300

irous1303

hastya1350

angrya1387

melancholiousa1393

quicka1400

irefulc1400

melancholyc1450

turnec1480

iracundiousa1492

passionatea1500

fumish1523

irascible1530

wrothful1535

fierya1540

warm1547

choleric1556

hot at hand1558

waspish1566

incensive1570

bilious1571

splenative1593

hot-livered1599

short1599

spitfire1600

warm-tempered1605

temperless1614

sulphurous1616

angryable1662

huffy1680

hastish1749

peppery1778

quick-tempered1792

inflammable1800

hair-triggered1806

gingery1807

spunky1809

iracund1821

irascid1823

wrathy1828

frenzy1859

gunpowdery1868

gunpowderous1870

tempersome1875

exacerbescent1889

tempery1905

lightningy1906

temperish1925

short-fused1979

1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. aiiii^v Satyre of writhled waspyshe Saturne may be namde.

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 5 In aige, sone testie, very waspishe.

1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 222 The leven of whose religion makes them waspish, peevish, touchy, clamorous.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 177. ⁋11 Their conversation was, therefore, fretful and waspish, their behaviour brutal.

1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 112 It is lamentable that that good heart of his should be coupled with so bad a judgement and so waspish a temper.

1838 B. Disraeli Corr. with Sister (1886) 90 Sharp and waspish, he would have made a good petulant Opposition speech.

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. ix. 151 Such a set of waspish, dogmatical, over-bearing fellows.

a1901 W. Bright Age of Fathers (1903) II. 375 He had been charged by waspish enemies with ascribing a heavenly origin to the holy body of Christ.

in combination.a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 99 Her waspish headed sonne [sc. Cupid], has broke his arrowes, Swears he will shoote no more, but play with Sparrows.

b. Marked or characterized by virulence or petulance, spiteful.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > spitefulness > [adjective]

teenfulOE

atteryc1175

ondfula1200

maliciousa1250

doggedc1300

enviousc1330

venoma1350

spitous?a1366

despitousc1374

heinous?a1400

venomyc1400

sinister1411

sputousc1420

doggish?a1425

cankered?a1439

doggya1450

sinistrous1460

spity1481

despiteful1488

spiteful1490

despiteous?1510

viperious?1510

peevisha1522

maliceful1522

envyful1530

viperinec1540

viperous?1542

vipered1560

uncanny1596

dogged-sprighted1600

maliced1602

ill-minded1611

virulent1613

ill-hearteda1617

doleful1617

spitish1627

splenial1641

litherlya1643

venomsome1660

slim1674

viper1721

vipereal1750

viperish1755

vicious1825

waspish1855

viperian1866

viperan1877

cattish1883

catty1886

bitchy1928

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > [adjective]

loathOE

teenfulOE

nithefulOE

ondfula1200

maliciousa1250

doggedc1300

enviousc1330

venomousa1340

venoma1350

spitous?a1366

despitousc1374

heinous?a1400

unkindlya1400

venomyc1400

sinister1411

sputousc1420

doggish?a1425

cankered?a1439

doggya1450

sinistrous1460

spity1481

despiteful1488

spiteful1490

despiteous?1510

viperious?1510

peevisha1522

envyful1530

viperous1535

viperinec1540

vipered1560

bad-minded1588

uncanny1596

dogged-sprighted1600

toothsome1601

maliced1602

ill-minded1611

virulent1613

ill-hearteda1617

doleful1617

spitish1627

ill-meaning1633

splenial1641

litherlya1643

venomsome1660

slim1668

cat-witted1672

vipereal1750

viperish1755

méchant1813

vicious1825

maliceful1840

mean1841

waspish1855

viperian1866

viperan1877

cattish1883

catty1886

bad mind1904

bitchy1908

1870 Evening Standard 9 Sept. 1 This waspish article created great indignation.

1880 Scribner's Monthly May 118 ‘The Literati’..are a prose Dunciad, waspish and unfair, but [etc.].

quasi-adverb.1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! ix We may excuse Raleigh's answering somewhat waspish to some quotation of Spenser's from the three letters of ‘Immerito and G. H.’

Derivatives

ˈwaspishly adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [adverb]

hastilyc1330

cholericly1536

fumishly1570

waspishly1684

irascibly1828

cholerically1862

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > [adverb]

maliciouslya1325

despitouslyc1374

doggedlyc1380

spitouslya1387

venomly1387

spitousc1400

venomously1449

sputouslyc1450

evilfullyc1475

despitefully1487

despiteouslya1500

enviously1508

unhappily1509

peevishly?1529

spitefully1532

cankeredly1535

viperiously1538

malignly1543

sinisterlyc1550

to spite (one)a1575

doggishly1576

cankerly1580

viperously1587

sinistruouslya1615

despitely1619

waspishly1684

viciously1841

waspily1854

dolefully1880

cattishly1913

cattily1924

bitchily1961

bitchingly1970

1684–94 tr. Plutarch Morals (1718) III. 24 To preserve her from being waspishly proud, out of a Conceit of her Fidelity and Vertue.

1883 R. Broughton Belinda III. iv. iv. 242 ‘Well, may I go?’ ‘Why do you ask?’ retorts he waspishly.

ˈwaspishness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [noun]

hastinessc1325

melancholya1375

hastivenessa1393

hastivessa1393

rese?a1400

hastivitya1500

fumishness1519

choler1530

firishness1568

cholericness1571

waspishness1593

fieriness1625

irascibility1750

parlousness1755

temper1828

provocability1834

quickness1863

tempersomeness1909

1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 116 That they be not cast out of the church by the weaknes, waspishnes (frowardnes) or rashnes of the bishop.

1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata 334 Where he is pleased now and then..to vent his waspishness.

1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. x. 87 A state of continual waspishness.

1827 T. De Quincey On Murder in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 207/1 Berkeley, feeling himself nettled by the waspishness of the old Frenchman, squared at him.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	waspish
释义	waspishadj.¹ Brit. /ˈwɒspɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈwɑspɪʃ/ Etymology: < wasp n.¹ + -ish suffix¹. 1. Pertaining to or resembling a wasp or some characteristic of it. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [adjective] > unpleasant loatha700 unsweetc890 grimlyc893 unquemeOE un-i-quemeOE evila1131 sourc1175 illc1220 unhightlyc1275 unwelcomec1325 unblithec1330 unnetc1330 unrekena1350 unagreeablec1374 uncouthc1380 unsavouryc1380 displeasantc1386 unlikinga1398 ungaina1400 crabbedc1400 unlovelyc1400 displeasing1401 eschewc1420 unsoot1420 mislikinga1425 unlikelya1425 unlustya1425 fastidiousc1425 unpleasantc1430 displicable1471 unthankfulc1475 displeasant1481 uneasy1483 unpleasinga1500 unfaring1513 badc1530 malpleasant?1533 noisome1542 thanklessa1547 ungrate1548 untoothsome1548 ungreeable1550 contrary1561 disagreeable1570 offensible1575 offensive1576 naughty1578 delightlessa1586 undelightful1585 unwisheda1586 unpleasurable1587 undelightsomec1595 dislikeful1596 disliking1596 ungrateful1596 unsweet?a1600 distastive1600 impleasing1602 distasting1603 distasteful1607 unsightly1608 undelectable1610 disgustful1611 unrelishing1611 waspisha1616 undeliciousa1618 unwished-for1617 disrelishing1631 unenjoyed1643 unjoyous1645 mirya1652 unwelcomed1651 unpleasivea1656 sweet1656 injucund1657 insuave1657 unpalatable1658 unhandsome1660 undesirable1667 disrelishablea1670 uncouthsome1684 shocking1703 nasty1705 embittering1746 indelectable1751 undelightinga1774 nice and ——1796 unenjoyablea1797 ungenial1796 uncomplacent1805 ungracious1807 bitter1810 rotten1813 uncongenial1813 quarrelsome1825 grimy1833 nice1836 unrelished1863 bloody1867 unbewitching1876 ferocious1877 displeasurable1879 rebarbative1892 charming1893 crook1898 naar1900 peppery1901 negative1902 poisonous1906 off-putting1935 unsympathetic1937 piggy1942 funky1946 umpty1948 pooey1967 minging1970 Scrooge-like1976 sucky1984 stank1991 stanky1991 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > [adjective] > middle of trunk or waist > types of long-waisted1576 short-waisted1590 side-waisted1599 waspy1658 wasp-waisted1775 waspish1866 nip-waisted1899 a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 210 If I be waspish, best beware my sting. View more context for this quotation 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 90 Thy waspish tongue will never fail To prat, to scold, revile and rail. 1822 W. Scott Halidon Hill i. ii. 57 Let a body of your chosen horse Make execution on yon waspish archers. 1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. iv. 88 Her waist showed none of those waspish proportions. 1915 B. Digby in Travel July 22/1 In the dock lay a pair of waspish, one-funnelled steamers. 2. a. esp. Quick to resent any trifling injury or affront; irascible, petulantly spiteful. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [adjective] > irascible (of person) hotOE wooda1250 hastivec1300 irous1303 hastya1350 angrya1387 melancholiousa1393 quicka1400 irefulc1400 melancholyc1450 turnec1480 iracundiousa1492 passionatea1500 fumish1523 irascible1530 wrothful1535 fierya1540 warm1547 choleric1556 hot at hand1558 waspish1566 incensive1570 bilious1571 splenative1593 hot-livered1599 short1599 spitfire1600 warm-tempered1605 temperless1614 sulphurous1616 angryable1662 huffy1680 hastish1749 peppery1778 quick-tempered1792 inflammable1800 hair-triggered1806 gingery1807 spunky1809 iracund1821 irascid1823 wrathy1828 frenzy1859 gunpowdery1868 gunpowderous1870 tempersome1875 exacerbescent1889 tempery1905 lightningy1906 temperish1925 short-fused1979 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. aiiii^v Satyre of writhled waspyshe Saturne may be namde. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 5 In aige, sone testie, very waspishe. 1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 222 The leven of whose religion makes them waspish, peevish, touchy, clamorous. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 177. ⁋11 Their conversation was, therefore, fretful and waspish, their behaviour brutal. 1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 112 It is lamentable that that good heart of his should be coupled with so bad a judgement and so waspish a temper. 1838 B. Disraeli Corr. with Sister (1886) 90 Sharp and waspish, he would have made a good petulant Opposition speech. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. ix. 151 Such a set of waspish, dogmatical, over-bearing fellows. a1901 W. Bright Age of Fathers (1903) II. 375 He had been charged by waspish enemies with ascribing a heavenly origin to the holy body of Christ. in combination.a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 99 Her waspish headed sonne [sc. Cupid], has broke his arrowes, Swears he will shoote no more, but play with Sparrows. View more context for this quotation b. Marked or characterized by virulence or petulance, spiteful. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > spitefulness > [adjective] teenfulOE atteryc1175 ondfula1200 maliciousa1250 doggedc1300 enviousc1330 venoma1350 spitous?a1366 despitousc1374 heinous?a1400 venomyc1400 sinister1411 sputousc1420 doggish?a1425 cankered?a1439 doggya1450 sinistrous1460 spity1481 despiteful1488 spiteful1490 despiteous?1510 viperious?1510 peevisha1522 maliceful1522 envyful1530 viperinec1540 viperous?1542 vipered1560 uncanny1596 dogged-sprighted1600 maliced1602 ill-minded1611 virulent1613 ill-hearteda1617 doleful1617 spitish1627 splenial1641 litherlya1643 venomsome1660 slim1674 viper1721 vipereal1750 viperish1755 vicious1825 waspish1855 viperian1866 viperan1877 cattish1883 catty1886 bitchy1928 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > [adjective] loathOE teenfulOE nithefulOE ondfula1200 maliciousa1250 doggedc1300 enviousc1330 venomousa1340 venoma1350 spitous?a1366 despitousc1374 heinous?a1400 unkindlya1400 venomyc1400 sinister1411 sputousc1420 doggish?a1425 cankered?a1439 doggya1450 sinistrous1460 spity1481 despiteful1488 spiteful1490 despiteous?1510 viperious?1510 peevisha1522 envyful1530 viperous1535 viperinec1540 vipered1560 bad-minded1588 uncanny1596 dogged-sprighted1600 toothsome1601 maliced1602 ill-minded1611 virulent1613 ill-hearteda1617 doleful1617 spitish1627 ill-meaning1633 splenial1641 litherlya1643 venomsome1660 slim1668 cat-witted1672 vipereal1750 viperish1755 méchant1813 vicious1825 maliceful1840 mean1841 waspish1855 viperian1866 viperan1877 cattish1883 catty1886 bad mind1904 bitchy1908 1870 Evening Standard 9 Sept. 1 This waspish article created great indignation. 1880 Scribner's Monthly May 118 ‘The Literati’..are a prose Dunciad, waspish and unfair, but [etc.]. quasi-adverb.1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! ix We may excuse Raleigh's answering somewhat waspish to some quotation of Spenser's from the three letters of ‘Immerito and G. H.’ Derivatives ˈwaspishly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [adverb] hastilyc1330 cholericly1536 fumishly1570 waspishly1684 irascibly1828 cholerically1862 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > [adverb] maliciouslya1325 despitouslyc1374 doggedlyc1380 spitouslya1387 venomly1387 spitousc1400 venomously1449 sputouslyc1450 evilfullyc1475 despitefully1487 despiteouslya1500 enviously1508 unhappily1509 peevishly?1529 spitefully1532 cankeredly1535 viperiously1538 malignly1543 sinisterlyc1550 to spite (one)a1575 doggishly1576 cankerly1580 viperously1587 sinistruouslya1615 despitely1619 waspishly1684 viciously1841 waspily1854 dolefully1880 cattishly1913 cattily1924 bitchily1961 bitchingly1970 1684–94 tr. Plutarch Morals (1718) III. 24 To preserve her from being waspishly proud, out of a Conceit of her Fidelity and Vertue. 1883 R. Broughton Belinda III. iv. iv. 242 ‘Well, may I go?’ ‘Why do you ask?’ retorts he waspishly. ˈwaspishness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [noun] hastinessc1325 melancholya1375 hastivenessa1393 hastivessa1393 rese?a1400 hastivitya1500 fumishness1519 choler1530 firishness1568 cholericness1571 waspishness1593 fieriness1625 irascibility1750 parlousness1755 temper1828 provocability1834 quickness1863 tempersomeness1909 1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 116 That they be not cast out of the church by the weaknes, waspishnes (frowardnes) or rashnes of the bishop. 1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata 334 Where he is pleased now and then..to vent his waspishness. 1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. x. 87 A state of continual waspishness. 1827 T. De Quincey On Murder in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 207/1 Berkeley, feeling himself nettled by the waspishness of the old Frenchman, squared at him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). Waspishadj.² Brit. /ˈwɒspɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈwɑspɪʃ/ Forms: Also Wasp-ish, WASPish. Etymology: < Wasp n.² + -ish suffix¹. Originally and chiefly U.S. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of American white Protestant ‘Wasps’. Cf. Waspy adj.² ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [adjective] > specific Mayflower1921 Waspish1968 Waspy1968 Middle American1969 1968 Listener 27 June 843/3 Charles Newman, making a most impressive debut, gives in New Axis a picture of a community that is diametrically the opposite of Mr Baldwin's Harlem: that of an upper-middle-class WASPish suburb in an Illinois dormitory town. 1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 May 591/2 Postwar antisemitism in America... Echoes of haughty Waspish outrage..are to be heard in [this] silly novel about the marriage in 1946 of a sexy, clever Jewish girl from the wrong bit of New York to a handsome booby from an aristocratic Long Island family. 1978 E. Tidyman Table Stakes ii. v. 261 His WASPish good looks. 1983 Times 8 July 7/5 He is Scorsese's contemporary, but from a different, Wasp-ish social class. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.¹1566adj.²1968
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waspishadj.1

Derivatives

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waspishadj.¹

Waspishadj.²