Wasp
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English
Noun
wasp (plural: wasps)
- Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet or bee
Translations
- Bosnian: osa f
- Czech: vosa f
- Danish: hveps
- Dutch: wesp
- Finnish: ampiainen
- German: Wespe f
- Italian: vespa f
- Latin: vespa f
- Lithuanian: vapsva f, širšė f, širšuolis m (Vespa crabro)
- Mongolian: морин зөгий
- Slovene: osa f
- Swedish: geting c
Noun
wasp (plural: wasps)
Etymology
Originally an acronym: white Anglo-Saxon protestant
- A member of the dominant American middle-class culture, a white Anglo-Saxon protestant.
See also
- cracker
- honky