Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Waspish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
wasp ;wasplike . - adjective Infested with
wasps . - adjective slang Like a
wasp (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant), a member of the dominant American upper-class culture.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Helene Cooper for staying presidential, loves calling O 'waspy'
Firedoglake 2009
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I appreciate the belt she has on here makes her look more 'waspy' and 'curvy.
Charcoal Ink 2008
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To the mother it seemed perfectly American, the America she admired, culled from literature, handpicked fruit—Nineteenth Century and Yankee Emily Dickinson, later—Twentieth Century, waspy, Cheeveresque, ice clinking in a martini glass.
Still Life, With Girl Brittany Newmark 2011
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To the mother it seemed perfectly American, the America she admired, culled from literature, handpicked fruit—Nineteenth Century and Yankee Emily Dickinson, later—Twentieth Century, waspy, Cheeveresque, ice clinking in a martini glass.
Still Life, With Girl Brittany Newmark 2011
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If our child inherits her mother's attraction to waspy sports, those activities may be open to her.
Rebecca Walker: Late Bloomers Rebecca Walker 2010
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If our child inherits her mother's attraction to waspy sports, those activities may be open to her.
Rebecca Walker: Late Bloomers Rebecca Walker 2010
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December 3rd, 2009 5: 31 pm ET when they say "just vote them out," what the tea baggers really mean is vote for socially conservative waspy males. this is sadder than a greek tragedy ...
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If our child inherits her mother's attraction to waspy sports, those activities may be open to her.
Rebecca Walker: Late Bloomers Rebecca Walker 2010
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She rues the day she fell pregnant by her waspy husband.
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Channelling her SATC persona, prim, waspy Charlotte York, she's Upper East Side perfection.
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