Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Waspish \Wasp"ish\, a.
1. Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a
wasp.
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2. Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by
snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.
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He was naturally a waspish and hot man. --Bp. Hall.
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Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace
This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race.
--Pope.
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Syn: Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy;
peevish; captious.
[1913 Webster] -- {Wasp"ish*ly}, adv. --
{Wasp"ish*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
waspish
adj 1: very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White
House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful";
"witty and waspish about his colleagues" [syn: {bristly},
{prickly}, {splenetic}, {waspish}]
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
