waspy
adjective
resembling a wasp; waspish.
waspy
1 American
[wos-pee]
/ ˈwɒs pi /
adjective
waspier,
waspiest
Waspy
2
American
[wos-pee]
/ ˈwɒs pi /
Also
WASPy,
adjective
Waspier,
Waspiest
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Etymology
Origin of waspy1
First recorded in 1650–60; wasp + -y 1
Origin of Waspy2
First recorded in 1965–70; WASP + -y 1
Example Sentences
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He quietly infiltrated bohemian and Waspy circles, summered in the Hamptons, and became familiar with the “old New York establishment world”, which he found “so similar to the old guard in Singapore”.
From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2020
We were on Martha’s Vineyard, a Waspy idyll off the coast of Massachusetts.
From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2019
She alerted me to a Cheever I’d not considered before, one “stranger and more subversive than his increasingly Waspy scenery suggests,” and sent me back to “The Swimmer,” a story I’d not read in decades.
From Slate • Jan. 10, 2014
In his first movies too he made mock of his Waspy features by playing dimwits and cuckolds.
From Time Magazine Archive
Waspy had said one must never judge hastily of people, but she did not feel that she was going to like this girl; even her back view looked stuck-up!
From Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls by Clarke, Margaret Bruce
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