wasps

noun

Meaning

A member of the dominant American upper-class culture: a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
A member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

white anglo-saxon protestant(English)aculeate(English)bees(English)dauber(English)digger(English)honeybees(English)jackets(English)sphecid(English)syconium(English)hymenoptera(English)wasp(English)cicadas(English)

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Sources

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