waspy

comparative waspier · superlative waspiest

1. Resembling or characteristic of a wasp; wasplike.

   I'm blond and blue-eyed and twenty-five, and my legs are strong and my bosom is substantial, and I have a waspy waistline.

   2001, Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark

2. Infested with wasps.

   a waspy apple

3. Waspish; irascible.

comparative waspier · superlative waspiest · alternative WASPy

1. slangLike a wasp (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant), a member of the dominant American upper-class culture.

   “I wasn’t asking the traditional waspy preppy types.

   2007 June 17, Allen Salkin, “Manny and the Socialites: Let’s Roll”, in New York Times

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   At a glance, Thor Steinar resembles waspy American pseudo-collegiate brands like Abercrombie and Fitch, Hollister, and Aeropostale, while displaying a distinctly Nordic aesthetics.

   2017, Geneviève Zubrzycki, National Matters: Materiality, Culture, and Nationalism

comparative WASPier · superlative WASPiest

1. informalAlternative letter-case form of waspy (“characteristic of a WASP”).

   She was the kind of Wasp-y pretty I desperately wanted to be – the type of beauty that provoked starry-eyed crushes instead of ass slaps.

   2016 May 28, Jessica Valenti, “Jessica Valenti: my life as a ‘sex object’”, in The Guardian

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   Laughing, Ms. Vanderbilt said: “I have two very WASPy friends who are quite disapproving. One of them said, ‘I think it’s going to ruin your reputation.’

   2009 June 17, Charles McGrath, quoting Gloria Vanderbilt, “At 85, a Brahmin in Blue Jeans Writes of Sex, Masks and Veggies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN