wasp around

verb

To hover or loiter aimlessly around a place.

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Meanings

verbwasp around (third-person singular simple present wasps around, present participle wasping around, simple past and past participle wasped around)

present singular third person wasps around · participle present wasping around · participle past wasped around · past wasped around

  1. To hover or loiter aimlessly around a place.

    Sharp was a little man, had a long face, and his mouth seemed to have been bored — for it was round — about midway between his chin and his forehead; and he was always wasping around, giving consequential orders about nothing […]

    1875, Henry Hiram Riley, The Puddleford Papers: Or, Humors of the West, page 174

Synonyms & antonyms

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hover
Cite this entry
APA

wasp around. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wasp%20around

MLA

“wasp around.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wasp%20around. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wasp around,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wasp%20around.

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