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Waspish
Waspish, a.2 orig. and chiefly U.S. (ˈwɒspɪʃ) Also Wasp-ish, WASPish. [f. Wasp n.2 + -ish1.] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of American white Protestant ‘Wasps’. Cf. Waspy a.21968 Listener 27 June 843/3 Charles Newman, making a most impressive debut, gives in New Axis a picture of a community ... Oxford English Dictionary
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The Furrow
Canon McGarry was succeeded by the waspish Fr Ronan Drury as editor, a role Drury would hold for forty years, until his death in 2017. wikipedia.org
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waspish
waspish, a.1 (ˈwɒspɪʃ) [f. wasp n.1 + -ish.] 1. Pertaining to or resembling a wasp or some characteristic of it.1596 Shakes. Tam. Shr. ii. i. 211 If I be waspish, best beware my sting. 1681 S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 90 Thy waspish tongue will never fail To prat, to scold, revile and rail. 1822... Oxford English Dictionary
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waspish
waspishadj (derog 贬) making sharp comments or replies; irritable or snappish 尖刻的; 易怒的; 暴躁的 waspish remarks 刻薄的言语. 牛津英汉双解词典
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Shockaholic
Reception The Guardian Peter Conrad said, "Carrie Fisher's wisecracks and waspish rants fail to mask her Hollywood self-regard." wikipedia.org
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Pimpinone
Once married she shows her waspish nature (the name Vespetta means "little wasp") and completely dominates her husband. wikipedia.org
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Waspy
Waspy, a.2 orig. and chiefly U.S. (ˈwɒspɪ) Also WASPy. [f. Wasp n.2 + -y1.] = Waspish a.21968 N.Y. Times 23 July 41/1 Black-power stalwarts suspiciously eying the Waspy surroundings. 1975 Publishers Weekly 9 June 61/3 Max Herschel, a high-powered industrialist in his 60s, coarse but with all the tra... Oxford English Dictionary
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John Smith (English poet)
John Genest considered that the plot resembled that of The Virtuoso from 1676, and that the character of Waspish might have been modelled on Snarl in wikipedia.org
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beeishness
† ˈbeeishness Obs. rare—1. [f. bee; after waspish, waspishness.] The quality of being like bees: used by Penn in his answer to the divines, who had termed the Friends ‘wasps.’1674 Penn Rebuke Divines 12 Doth this flow from the Beeishness of your Nature? Oxford English Dictionary
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Nick Tyrone
He has been described by Jon Rentoul in The Independent as a "waspish writer and natural troublemaker". wikipedia.org
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On the Malice of Herodotus
Authenticity and reception The tone of the essay is so waspish that many scholars (Grote was one) doubted that the text was the product of the famously wikipedia.org
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musicness
† ˈmusicness Obs. [f. music + -ness.] The quality of being musical.1633 Nabbes Tottenham Court iii. iii, Iam. Shall we dance, gentlemen? Musicknesse, and let activenesse freeze! Shall I use you sweet Mistris? Wife. Kindly sir, or I am waspish. Oxford English Dictionary
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Ray Martine
His style was "waspish...[and] uncompromising about problems he had faced arising from his sexuality and Jewishness". wikipedia.org
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Allen & Grier
The title track, for example, is a straightforward comedy track in which the pair's WASPish mother explains the virtues of being white and privileged. wikipedia.org
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Mind over Matter (The Nightingales album)
also rated the album 4/5 and said "This Terrific follow-up is even better, the quartet unloading a clamorous set of songs full of pique, provocation and waspish wikipedia.org
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