waspy

See also: WASPy

English

Etymology 1

wasp + -y

Adjective

waspy (comparative waspier, superlative waspiest)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a wasp; wasplike.
    • 2001, Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark
      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.
  2. Infested with wasps.
    a waspy apple

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Adjective

waspy (comparative more waspy, superlative most waspy)

  1. (slang) Like a wasp (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant), a member of the dominant American upper-class culture.
    • 2007 June 17, Allen Salkin, “Manny and the Socialites: Let’s Roll”, in New York Times:
      “I wasn’t asking the traditional waspy preppy types.

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