Wasp

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /wÉ’sp/
• US IPA: /wÉ‘sp/

From Old English wæsp, from Proto-Germanic *wepsō-, from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ ("wasp"), from *webʰ- ("weave") (referring to the insect's woven nests).

Full definition of wasp

Noun

1. Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet or bee.
2. A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.

Originally an acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

Noun

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

Anagrams

• paws
• swap
• WSPA