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wasp⋅y

  [wos-pee]
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–adjective, wasp⋅i⋅er, wasp⋅i⋅est.
resembling a wasp; waspish.
Origin:
1650–60; wasp + -y 1

Related forms:
wasp⋅i⋅ly, adverb
wasp⋅i⋅ness, noun

Wasp⋅y

  [wos-pee]
–adjective, Wasp⋅i⋅er, Wasp⋅i⋅est.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of WASPs: a Waspy country club.
Also, WASPy, Waspish.

Origin:
1965–70; WASP + -y 1
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wasp   (wŏsp, wôsp)   
n.  Any of numerous social or solitary insects, chiefly of the superfamilies Vespoidea and Sphecoidea, having a slender body with a constricted abdomen, two pairs of membranous wings, mouths adapted for biting or sucking, and in the females an ovipositor often modified as a sting.

[Middle English waspe, from Old English wæps, wæsp.]
wasp'y adj.
WASP 1 or Wasp   (wŏsp, wôsp)   
n.  

  1. A white Protestant of Anglo-Saxon ancestry.

  2. A white, usually Protestant member of the American upper social class.


[W(hite) A(nglo-)S(axon) P(rotestant).]
WASP'i·ness, WASP'ish·ness n., WASP'y, WASP'ish adj.
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