cross-grained vs waspy

cross-grained

adj
  • Difficult to deal with; contrary or troublesome. 

  • Having an irregular rather than a parallel grain. 

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 cross-grained and waspy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )