Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Waspish.

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  • 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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wasp +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Helene Cooper for staying presidential, loves calling O 'waspy'

    Firedoglake 2009

  • I appreciate the belt she has on here makes her look more 'waspy' and 'curvy.

    Charcoal Ink 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 ...

    Tea Party Express, Part Three 2009

  • 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

  • She rues the day she fell pregnant by her waspy husband.

    The Forgetting Room 9 2010

  • Channelling her SATC persona, prim, waspy Charlotte York, she's Upper East Side perfection.

    Tyra Banks's novel venture 2010

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