cantankerous vs waspy

cantankerous

adj
  • Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby. 

waspy

adj
  • Waspish; irascible. 

  • Resembling or characteristic of a wasp; wasplike. 

  • Like a wasp (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant), a member of the dominant American upper-class culture. 

  • Infested with wasps. 

How often have the words cantankerous and waspy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )