waspie
/ˈwɒspi
/noun (plural waspies)
A woman’s corset or belt designed to accentuate a slender waist.Yes, the Freudian unconscious was filled with girls in waspies and stockings doing wicked things!...
- Laure said she thought what I wanted was probably a waspie.
- Wear them with a leather waspie for extra hourglass appeal.
Origin
1950s: diminutive of wasp from wasp waist.
Rhymes
- you-all's
- you-alls
- you and whose army?
- you and yours
- you are welcome
- you bet
- you betcha
- you (can) bet your boots
- you (can) bet your bottom dollar
- you (can) catch more flies with honey than (with) vinegar
- you can lead (or take) a horse to water but you can't make him drink
- you can say that again!
- you can't get a quart into a pint pot
- you can't have your cake and eat it (too)
- you can't judge a book by its cover
- you can't keep a good man (or woman) down
- you can't lose
- you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
- you can't make bricks without straw
- you can't (or can) talk (you shouldn't or should talk)
- you can't put an old head on young shoulders
- you can't teach an old dog new tricks
- you can't win them all (or win some, lose some)
- you could have fooled me!
- you could have knocked me (or her, him, etc.) down with a feather