单词 | waspishness |
释义 | > as lemmasˈwaspishness 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. < as lemmas |
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