WASP

WASP ¹ or Wasp  (wsp, wôsp)

n.

1. A white Protestant of Anglo-Saxon ancestry.

2. A white, usually Protestant member of the American upper social class.

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[W(hite) A(nglo-)S(axon) P(rotestant).]

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WASPi·ness, WASPish·ness n.

WASPy, WASPish adj.

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WASP ² or Wasp  (wäsp)

n.

A member of Women's Airforce Service Pilots, organized during World War II as part of the U.S. Army Air Forces to ferry aircraft and to test new aircraft. The organization was disbanded in 1944.

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[From W(omen's) A(irforce) S(ervice) P(ilots).]

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wasp  (wsp, wôsp)

n.

Any of numerous social or solitary insects, chiefly of the superfamilies Vespoidea and Sphecoidea, having a slender body with a constricted abdomen, two pairs of membranous wings, mouths adapted for biting or sucking, and in the females an ovipositor often modified as a sting.

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[Middle English waspe, from Old English wæps, wæsp.]

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waspy adj.

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wasp

Noun

a common stinging insect with a slender black-and-yellow striped body [Old English wæsp]

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Wasp or WASP (in the US and Canada) White Anglo-Saxon Protestant: a person descended from N European, usually Protestant stock, forming a group often considered to be the most dominant and privileged in N American society

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	WASP - a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination white Anglo-Saxon Protestant Caucasian, White, White person - a member of the Caucasoid race Protestant - an adherent of Protestantism
	2.	wasp - social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting hymenopter, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect - insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing vespid, vespid wasp - mostly social nest-building wasps velvet ant - a solitary wasp of the family Mutillidae; the body has a coat of brightly colored velvety hair and the females are wingless sphecoid, sphecoid wasp - any of various solitary wasps cynipid gall wasp, cynipid wasp, gall wasp, gallfly - small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants

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wasp

noun see see, ants, bees and wasps

Translations

Wasp, WASP [wɔsp] n abbr (US) (col) (= White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) → sobrenombre, en general peyorativo, que se da a los americanos de origen anglosajón, acomodados y de tendencia conservadora

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wasp [wɔsp] n → avispa

Wasp, WASP [wɔsp] n abbr (US) (inf) (= White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) → surnom, souvent péjoratif, donné à l'américain de souche anglo-saxonne, aisé et de tendance conservatrice

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wasp [wɔsp] n → guêpe f

WASP Wasp [wɔsp] (US) (inf) n abbr (= White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) → weißer angelsächsischer Protestant m

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wasp [wɔsp] n → Wespe f

WaspWASP [wɔsp] n abbr (US) (= White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) → W.A.S.P. m (protestante bianco anglosassone)

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wasp [wɔsp] n → vespa

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wasp

n wasp [wosp]

a type of winged insect having a sting and a slender waist. wesp, perdeby زُنْبور оса vosa hveps die Wespe σφήκα avispa herilane زنبور ampiainen guêpe צִרעָה भिड़, बर्रे osa darázs lebah vespa, geitungur vespa すずめばち 말벌, 나나니벌 vapsva lapsene penyengat wesp veps osa vespa viespe оса osa osa osa geting แตน; ต่อ eşek arısı 黃蜂 оса زنبور ong bắp cày 黄蜂