Waspish — Defs

01 a. Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.

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.