Wasp

I имя существительное; [американский вариант английского языка, пренебрежительное]; сокращение от White Anglo-Saxon Protestant "белая кость" (истинный американец, американская аристократия: американцы англосаксонского происхождения и протестантского вероисповедания) II сокращение от Women's Airforce Service Pilots лётчицы ВВС США III сокращение от World Association of Societies of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology ВОАП, Всемирная ассоциация обществ патологической анатомии и клинической биологии

имя существительное 1) [зоология] оса 2) [устаревшее, используется в разговорной речи] оса (о злом, язвительном человеке)

noun Etymology: Middle English waspe, from Old English wæps, wæsp; akin to Old High German wafsa wasp, Latin vespa wasp 1. any of numerous social or solitary winged hymenopterous insects (especially families Sphecidae and Vespidae) that usually have a slender smooth body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk, well-developed wings, biting mouthparts, and in the females and workers an often formidable sting, and that are largely carnivorous and often provision their nests with insects or spiders killed or paralyzed by stinging for their larvae to feed on — compare bee 2. any of various hymenopterous insects (as a chalcid or ichneumon wasp) other than wasps with larvae that are parasitic on other arthropods • wasplike adjective

or Wasp noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: white Anglo-Saxon Protestant sometimes disparaging an American of Northern European and especially British ancestry and of Protestant background; especially a member of the dominant and the most privileged class of people in the United States • Waspdom noun, sometimes disparaging • Waspish adjective, sometimes disparaging • Waspishness noun, sometimes disparaging • Waspy adjective, sometimes disparaging

noun see WASP