Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - wasp
Wasp
wasp
n. 1 a stinging often flesh-eating insect of the order Hymenoptera, esp. the common social wasp Vespa vulgaris, with black and yellow stripes and a very thin waist. 2 (in comb.) any of various insects resembling a wasp in some way (wasp-beetle). Phrases and idioms wasp-waist a very slender waist. wasp-waisted having a very slender waist. Derivatives wasplike adj. Etymology: OE w{aelig}fs, w{aelig}ps, w{aelig}sp, f. WG: perh. rel. to WEAVE(1) (from the weblike form of its nest) WASP n. (also WASP) US usu. derog. a middle-class American White Protestant descended from early European settlers. Derivatives Waspy adj. (also WASPy). Etymology: White Anglo- Saxon Protestant
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or Wasp noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: white Anglo-Saxon Protestant Date: 1957 an American of Northern European and especially British ancestry and of Protestant background, Waspdom noun, sometimes disparaging Waspish adjective, sometimes disparaging Waspishness noun, sometimes disparaging Waspy adjective, sometimes disparaging ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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