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Definition of Aspish
1. a. Pertaining to, or like, an asp.
Definition of Aspish
1. Adjective. Pertaining to, or like, an asp. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aspish
1. resembling an asp [adj] - See also: asp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aspish
Literary usage of Aspish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Edmund Gosse, Thomas James Wise (1919)
"I.—"aspish" for "apish." My copy, a cruelly cropped one, of the first Quarto
reads "apish." At p. 172, v. 22, I doubt the justice of 1 Philip Bourke Marston ..."
2. The Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1919)
"PS—I notice a slight misprint on p. 121 (v. 418), of Vol. l.—"aspish" for "apish."
My copy, a cruelly cropped one, of the first Quarto reads "apish." At p. ..."
3. The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington by Richard Robert Madden (1855)
"... of a waspish mind and an aspish tongue, is never more entertaining in it than
when he is most sneering in his remarks, and churlish of praise in dealing ..."
4. Collected Plays and Poems by Cale Young Rice (1915)
"... And infectiously, I stood; Waiting for her sign—• A shriek repeated nine.
I shrank at every aspish quivering fear set crawling in my breast. ..."
5. The Philosophy of Rhetoric by George Campbell (1856)
"... and even a prejudice against everything to which there is nothing in France
corresponding, " Whose manners still our tardy aspish nation Limps after, ..."
6. Memoir of Thomas Addis and Robert Emmet: With Their Ancestors and Immediate by Thomas Addis Emmet (1915)
"But the aspish-seed sown in his youthful mind had fallen on a too genial soil
and was rising fast to obscure the brightness of his prospects. ..."
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