What is "waspishness"

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. [1913 Webster] -- Wasp"ish*ly, adv. -- Wasp"ish*ness, n.

n. the quality of being waspish