a. 如黄蜂的, 腰细的, 易怒的

[ adj ]
very irritable
<adj.all>
bristly exchanges between the White House and the presshe became prickly and spiteful
witty and waspish about his colleagues

Waspish \Wasp"ish\, 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.

Syn: Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy;
peevish; captious.
※ -- {Wasp"ish*ly}, adv. --
{Wasp"ish*ness}, n.