waspyn.
/ˈwɒspi/, U.S. /ˈwɑspi/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
A wasp.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > a wasp
waspc725
waspya1529
yellow jacket1796
jasper1967
a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 330 Angry as a waspy!
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Waps, wapsy, a wasp.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
waspyadj.1
/ˈwɒspi/, U.S. /ˈwɑspi/ 1. Resembling a wasp in form, wasp-like.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > [adjective] > middle of trunk or waist > types of
long-waisted1576
short-waisted1590
side-waisted1599
waspy1658
wasp-waisted1775
waspish1866
nip-waisted1899
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > of or relating to wasps > resembling
vespiform1752
sphecoid1815
vespoid1815
waspy1869
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 921 Whereupon that Greek Comick Poet calls those Maids,..for their slendernesse in the waste σϕηκοδεῖς [sic], waspy or like Wasps.
1869 T. W. Wood in Student II. 87 The hornet clearwing,..so waspy in appearance.
1870 Daily News 19 July 6 A brown horse with a light waspy middle.
1889 Sportsman 29 July 2/1 So long as a waspy waist is considered ‘a thing of beauty’.
2. Abounding in wasps.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > of or relating to wasps > abounding in
waspy1681
1681 Rector's Bk. Clayworth (1910) 53 It was also a very waspy year.
1880 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) II. 13 Very hot and waspy it was at dinner.
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Waspyadj.2
/ˈwɒspi/, U.S. /ˈwɑspi/ Originally and chiefly U.S.
= Waspish adj.2
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [adjective] > specific
Mayflower1921
Waspish1968
Waspy1968
Middle American1969
1968 N.Y. Times 23 July 41/1 Black-power stalwarts suspiciously eying the Waspy surroundings.
1975 Publishers Weekly 9 June 61/3 Max Herschel, a high-powered industrialist in his 60s, coarse but with all the trappings of class, has lost his..mistress Bones to Steven Routledge, who is the antithesis of Max, WASPy, idealistic, a failed novelist.
1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xxxiii. 383 A slim, Waspy, forty-year-old ex-debutante.
Draft additions 1993
ˈWaspily adv.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [adverb] > specific
Waspily1985
1985 Washington Post 18 May c9/6 Michael Chaban..is rather WASPily handsome as Alonso.
1989 Chicago Tribune 22 Jan. xii. 10/4 Washington is a city of neighborhoods, and most of them are nowhere near as waspily white-bread as the president.
ˈWaspiness n.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > character or quality > specific
Afro-americanism1890
Waspdom1969
Waspiness1983
1983 Time 15 Aug. 69/3 One Life [to Live]..integrated assorted ethnic types into the white-bread Waspiness of Soapland.
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n.a1529adj.11658
adj.21968