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WASP ~ n especially AmE White Anglo-Saxon Protestant; an American whose family was originally from northern Europe and who is therefore considered to be part of the most powerful group in society
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(wasps) A wasp is an insect with wings and yellow and black stripes across its body. Wasps have a painful sting like a bee but do not produce honey. N-COUNT WASP (WASPs) WASP is used to refer to the people in American society whose ancestors came from northern Europe, especially England, and who are considered to have a lot of power and influence. WASP is an abbreviation for ‘White Anglo-Saxon Protestant’. (AM) ...a WASP with a Yale degree. N-COUNT: also N n c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun see WASP WASP or Wasp noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: white Anglo-Saxon Protestant Date: 1957 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 WASP noun Etymology: Middle English ~e, from Old English w?ps, w?sp; akin to Old High German wafsa ~, Latin vespa ~ Date: before 12th century 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 ~) other than ~s with larvae that are parasitic on other arthropods • ~like adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a stinging often flesh-eating insect of the order Hymenoptera, esp. the common social wasp Vespa vulgaris, with black and yellow stripes and a very thin waist. 2 (in comb.) any of various insects resembling a wasp in some way (wasp-beetle). Phrases and idioms wasp-waist a very slender waist. wasp-waisted having a very slender waist. Derivatives wasplike adj. Etymology: OE w{aelig}fs, w{aelig}ps, w{aelig}sp, f. WG: perh. rel. to WEAVE(1) (from the weblike form of its nest) WASP n. (also WASP) US usu. derog. a middle-class American White Protestant descended from early European settlers. Derivatives Waspy adj. (also WASPy). Etymology: White Anglo- Saxon Protestant ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) оса (Vespa); pl настоящие складчатокрылые осы (Vespidae) 2) pl роющие осы (Sphecidae) – agaontid wasps – aphid wasps – bedeguar wasp – bee-killer wasp – beetle wasps – bethylid wasps – chalcid wasps – common wasp – cuckoo wasp – digger wasps – drinid wasps – encyrtid wasps – ensign wasps – eurytomid wasps – fairy flower wasps – fig wasp – gall wasps – giant wood wasp – gold wasps – jewel wasps – long-headed wasp – masarid wasps – mason wasps – paper wasp – parasitic wood wasps – plumed wasps – pointed-tailed wasps – potter wasps – red wasp – ruby-tailed wasps – sand wasp – sapygid wasp – scoliid wasps – seed wasps – shining wasps – social wasps – solitary wasps – sphecoid wasps – spider wasps – spiny digger wasp – steel-blue wood wasp – stephanid wasps – tailed wasps – thread-waisted wasps – tiphiid wasps – tool-using wasp – turret wasp – twig wasp – wood wasps ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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(White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) белый протестант англо-саксонского происхождения Представитель этнической и социальной группы, считающий себя "коренным" американцем, так как его предки появились на территории современных Соединенных Штатов в числе первых поселенцев в XVII-XVIII вв. Значительная часть представителей деловой, финансовой и политической элиты США принадлежит именно к этой группе WASP (U. S. S. Wasp) "Уосп" Универсальный десантный корабль водоизмещением 42 тыс. тонн; способен принимать на борт 200 морских пехотинцев и 42 вертолета ...Англо-русский лингвострановедческий словарь
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1. зоол. оса (Vespoidae) Id: wasp's nest, nest of wasps —- осиное гнездо, скопище врагов ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- O.E. wжps, wжsp, altered (probably by influence of L. vespa) from W.Gmc. *wabis-, from PIE *wobhes-/*wops-, perhaps from *webh- "weave," source of O.E. webb "web" and wefan "to weave." WASP, acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, is first recorded 1962, said to have been coined by University of Pennsylvania sociologist E. Digby Baltzell. Waspish in the sense of "irascible, spiteful" is attested from 1566. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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