waspy

¹

[wos-pee]

adjective

waspier, waspiest 

1. resembling a wasp; waspish.

Waspy

²

Also WASPy,

[wos-pee]

adjective

Waspier, Waspiest 

1. Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive.,  of, relating to, or characteristic of WASPs.

   a Waspy country club.

Other Word Forms

• waspily adverb
• waspiness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of waspy¹

First recorded in 1650–60; wasp + -y ¹

Origin of waspy²

First recorded in 1965–70; WASP + -y ¹

Example Sentences

For years, it was WASPy, long-legged girls, with a tennis racket over one shoulder and a touch-me-not attitude.

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She was a privileged, WASPy woman with a superiority complex and a misjudged view of her own talents.

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"A story about a Jewish guy from the Bronx living with his shiksa wife" in the waspy world of southern California was, he says, “exactly the right story to be telling post 9/11.”

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She is a WASPy tradwife before that term was coined on social media.

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"You see, for my father here, a poor struggling Jew growing up in the Bronx, well . . . Christmas, it meant Chinese food and movie. And for my mom over here — WASPy McWASP — well, it meant a tree, it meant stockings and all the trimmings."

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Related Words

• cantankerous 
• crusty 
• grouchy 
• grumpy 
• ornery