waspy
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- Words With Friends
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- Letters
- 5
/ˈwɒspi/
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/ˈwɒspi/ · /ˈwɑspi/
Definition of waspy
5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Resembling or characteristic of a wasp; wasplike.
“I'm blond and blue-eyed and twenty-five, and my legs are strong and my bosom is substantial, and I have a waspy waistline.”
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adj
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Resembling or characteristic of a wasp; wasplike.
“I'm blond and blue-eyed and twenty-five, and my legs are strong and my bosom is substantial, and I have a waspy waistline.”
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Infested with wasps.
“a waspy apple”
- Waspish; irascible.
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(slang)Like a wasp (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant), a member of the dominant American upper-class culture.
““I wasn’t asking the traditional waspy preppy types.”
“At a glance, Thor Steinar resembles waspy American pseudo-collegiate brands like Abercrombie and Fitch, Hollister, and Aeropostale, while displaying a distinctly Nordic aesthetics.”
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(alt-of, informal)Alternative letter-case form of waspy (“characteristic of a WASP”).
“Laughing, Ms. Vanderbilt said: “I have two very WASPy friends who are quite disapproving. One of them said, ‘I think it’s going to ruin your reputation.’”
“She was the kind of Wasp-y pretty I desperately wanted to be – the type of beauty that provoked starry-eyed crushes instead of ass slaps.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From wasp + -y.
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