What does "waspish" mean?

Waspish: 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. -- Wasp"ish*ly, adv. -- Wasp"ish*ness, n.