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Wasp, n.2 orig. and chiefly U.S.|wɒsp|
Also WASP.
[Acronym f. the initial letters of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.]
A member of the American white Protestant middle or upper class descended from early European settlers in the U.S. Freq. derog. Also attrib. or as adj.
1962E. B. Palmore in Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. LXVII. 442/2 For the sake of brevity we will use the nickname ‘Wasp’ for this group, from the initial letters of ‘White Anglo-Saxon Protestants’. 1963Times 2 May 15/5 There is such a thing as a ‘Human Engineering Laboratory’; whether a man is a Wasp (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) can decide his career. 1963New Statesman 10 May 716/2 This year's executive model will be over six feet tall, clean-shaven, lean, and with large fleshy ears... He should try to be or pretend to be a WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) and ought to have gone to an Ivy League college, preferably Princeton. 1964E. D. Baltzell Protestant Establishment (1965) i. 9, I should first like to show how the aristocratic process still worked quite well in the case of the family of Abraham Lincoln, and especially how the WASP establishment authoritatively retained the leadership of American society in the generation of Robert Todd Lincoln. 1968Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Apr. 329/1 The Jew can choose to leave his ghetto by ‘passing’ or by breaking the more and more flimsy barriers put up by Wasp (and non-Wasp) anti-Semitism, but the Negro cannot. 1971M. McCarthy Birds of Amer. 71 He was the only older WASP Peter knew. 1977Time 19 Dec. 66/2 United States Secretary of State Felix John Vandenberg—slim, silver-haired, tallish, Wasp—speaks with ‘the lingering trace of a British accent, which had been acquired at Eton and Oxford’. 1978Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVI. 276/1 Can what one calls a WASP properly and without any discrimination select an Asian? 1979R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) i. i. 37 Daphne's father was the senior partner of the leading prestigious Wasp law firm in New York. |