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waspish

UK/ˈwɒs.pɪʃ//ˈwɑ.spɪʃ/

waspish adjective: suggestive of the behaviour of a wasp.

Adjective (1)

waspish (comparative more waspish, superlative most waspish)

  1. Suggestive of the behaviour of a wasp.
  2. (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

Adjective (2) capitalized: WASPish

WASPish (comparative more WASPish, superlative most WASPish)

  1. Suggestive of the behaviour of a WASP.

waspish meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

waspish in Urdu

چڑچڑا, نکد

waspish in Malayalam

touchy, irritable, testy
കർക്കശസ്വഭാവമായ, മുൻകോപമുള്ള, ശുണ്ഠിയുള്ള, മുൻശുണ്ഠി യുള്ള, പെട്ടെന്നു കോപിക്കുന്ന, മുൻകോപിയായ

Forms of waspish

comparativemore waspish
superlativemost waspish
comparativemore WASPish
superlativemost WASPish

Origin of waspish

From wasp + -ish.

From WASP + -ish.

Words formed from waspish

Questions about waspish

What does waspish mean?
Waspish means suggestive of the behaviour of a wasp.
What is waspish in Urdu?
Waspish in Urdu is چڑچڑا, نکد. See Waspish meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is waspish?
Waspish is an adjective.
How do you pronounce waspish?
Waspish is pronounced /ˈwɒs.pɪʃ/ (UK).

Words near waspish in the dictionary

  1. waspiest
  2. waspily
  3. waspiness
  4. wasping
  5. wasping around
  6. waspish
  7. waspishly
  8. waspishness
  9. WASPization
  10. WASPize
  11. waspless

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: waspish (page history and authors); WASPish (page history and authors); waspish (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); waspish (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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