ornery vs waspy

ornery

adj
  • Cantankerous, stubborn, disagreeable. 

  • Mischievous, prankish, teasing, disagreeable but in a good way. 

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