Definitions for WASP

WASP wasp

Spelling: [wosp]
IPA: /wɒsp/

Wasp is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in WASP (apsw).

Definitions for WASP

noun

  1. any of numerous social or solitary hymenopterous insects of the Vespidae, Sphecidae, and allied families, generally having a long, slender body and narrow waist and, in the female, a stinger.
  2. a person who is snappish or petulant.
  3. a member of the Women's Air Force Service Pilots, an organization disbanded in 1944.
  4. a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
  5. a member of the privileged, established white upper middle class in the U.S.

adjective

  1. Waspy.

Origin of WASP

before 900; Middle English waspe, Old English wæsp, metathetic variant of wæps, itself variant of wæfs, akin to Dutch wesp, German Wespe, Latin vespa

Examples for WASP

Hanley's wasp had landed: we saw its lights half a mile from us.

The wasp flew inside, and found that their enemy was away from home.

They were called La Red Avispa (The wasp Network) and claim to have successfully foiled a number of threats against the island.

But Harry, handsome ex-Marine and feted author, is greedy for more happiness than Maddy, a wasp goddess, gives him.

We later learn that the model, who is the heroine, is a Connecticut wasp disappointed in her arrival in the big city.

In his memoir, Belfort describes Danny Porush (the real Azoff) as a Jewish Long Islander with wasp pretensions.

It may have been playfulness, yet the girl jumped up as if she had been stung by a wasp.

Thus I regarded the abbe as a wasp to be crushed as speedily as possible.

I have got away from the wasp's nest only to tumble into the middle of the swarm!

Patton was also called a “wasp,” “offensive,” and “sheltered.”

Word Value for WASP
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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