wasp

/wɒsp//wɑsp/

noun

  1. 1

    Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.

  2. 2

    Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).

  3. 3

    A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.

noun

  1. 1

    A member of the dominant American upper-class culture: a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

  2. 2

    A member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

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