wasp /wosp/

1. Any of a large number of insects belonging to the order Hymenoptera and constituting many families, including the Vespidae, to which the common wasp (Vespula vulgaris) and the European hornet (Vespa crabro) belong, having black-and-yellow-striped bodies, and, in the case of the female, a stinging organ
2. A petulant and spiteful person

wasˈpie noun (old)

1. A ladies' corset which is laced or fitted tightly to draw the waist in
2. A similarly girdled belt

wasˈpish adjective

1. Like a wasp
2. Having a slender waist, like a wasp
3. Quick to resent an injury
4. Spiteful, virulent

wasˈpishly adverb

wasˈpishness noun

waspˈ-like adjective

wasˈpy adjective

Waspish

wasˈpish-headˈed adjective (Shakespeare)

Hot-headed, passionate

waspˈnest, wasp's nest or wasps' nest noun

1. The nest of a wasp or of a community of wasps
2. A place full of enemies or angry people (figurative)
3. Circumstances in which one is assailed indignantly from all sides (figurative)

waspˈ-tongu'd adjective (Shakespeare, 1 Henry IV I.3.236; 1st quarto waspˈ-stung, others waspˈ-tongue)

Having a biting tongue, shrewish

wasp waist noun

A very slender waist reminiscent of a wasp's, esp contrasting with more substantial proportions above and below it

waspˈ-waistˈed adjective

1. Slender-waisted
2. Laced tightly

WASP or Wasp /wosp/ (US, usu derogatory)

A White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, supposedly representing the most privileged class in US society

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