Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectal variant of
wasp .
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Examples
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In the present day, "waps" is considered a vulgar way of pronouncing the word; but it was correct English at the time of which I am writing.
Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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**Josie sneeks up adn waps him awn teh bak ob teh hed**
Hello Charlie!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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So that waps up this issue, and one of the lengthiest retrospectives to date.
April 19th, 2009 douglascohen 2009
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My daily wegimen incwudes swimming twelve waps in my pool.
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My daily wegimen incwudes swimming twelve waps in my pool.
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Hims jes turned a widdle tu the right tu get a good angle awn teh kitteh wen he waps him awn teh noez.
I Christen thee - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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No form of verbal corruption is more frequent throughout the rural districts of England than that produced by the transposition of letters, especially of consonants: such words as _world_, _wasp_, _great_, are, as every one knows, still ordinarily (though less frequently than a dozen years ago) pronounced _wordle_, _waps_, _gurt_.
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In words ending with _p_ followed by _s_, the letters change places as: hasp -- haps; clasp -- claps, wasp -- waps;
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings
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But just then I heerd a buzzin 'sound, an' I reckoned there mun be a waps somewheer about.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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In Kent _p_ is commonly put before the _s_, as _haps_ is _hasp_, _waps_ is _wasp_.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
ruzuzu commented on the word waps
"A dialectal variant of wasp." --Cent. Dict.
May 5, 2011