Waspish

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

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.

Synonyms: Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy; peevish; captious. Wasp"ish*ly, adv. Wasp"ish*ness, n.