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wasp
noun
Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
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Word Facts
- Word length
- 4
- Starts with
- W
- Ends with
- P
- Contains
- AS
- Scrabble score
- 9
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
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Pronunciation
/wɒsp/ /wɑsp/
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Definitions
noun
Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.
noun
A member of the dominant American upper-class culture: a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
A member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots.