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[edit] Etymology 1
From Old English wæsp.
wasp (plural wasps)
- Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet or bee.
- A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.
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insect
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- Latvian: lapsene (lv) f., vapsene (lv) f.
- Lithuanian: vapsva f., širšė f., širšuolis m. (Vespa crabro)
- Macedonian: оса (mk) (ósa) f.
- Malay: tebuan, penyengat (ms)
- Mongolian: морин зөгий (mn)
- Navajo: tsísʼnáłtsooí
- Norwegian: veps (no) m.
- Old English: wæsp (ang) m.
- Persian: زنبور (fa) (zanbōr)
- Polish: osa (pl) f.
- Portuguese: vespa (pt)
- Romanian: viespe (ro) f.
- Russian: оса (ru) (osá) f.
- Scottish Gaelic: speach f.
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic: оса (sr) f., зоља (sr) f.
- Roman: osa f., zolja f.
- Slovak: osa (sk) f.
- Slovene: osa (sl) f.
- Spanish: avispa (es) f.
- Swedish: geting (sv) c.
- Tagalog: putakti (tl)
- Tamazight: ireẓẓi m., areẓẓa m.
- Turkish: yaban arısı (tr)
- Volapük: (male or female) vesep (vo), (male) hivesep (vo), (female) jivesep (vo), (male or female offspring, young) vesepül (vo), (older term) lubien (vo)
- Walloon: wesse (wa) f.
- Wolof: njulli-kaata bi (wo)
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[edit] Etymology 2
Originally an acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
wasp (plural wasps)
- A member of the dominant American upper-class culture, a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
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