waspy

See also: WASPy

English

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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

3. Waspish; irascible.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• WASPy

Adjective

waspy (comparative waspier, superlative waspiest)

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^[1]:

     “I wasn’t asking the traditional waspy preppy types.

   • 2017, Geneviève Zubrzycki, National Matters: Materiality, Culture, and Nationalism:

     At a glance, Thor Steinar resembles waspy American pseudo-collegiate brands like Abercrombie and Fitch, Hollister, and Aeropostale, while displaying a distinctly Nordic aesthetics.

See also

• waspie

Anagrams

• yawps