wasp
黄蜂,胡蜂,马蜂,蜂
Definitions
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- : any of numerous social or solitary hymenopterous insects of the Vespidae, Sphecidae, and allied families, generally having a long, slender body and narrow waist and, in the female, a stinger.
- : a person who is snappish or petulant.
Examples
They were called La Red Avispa (The Wasp Network) and claim to have successfully foiled a number of threats against the island.
I was like, “In what world do I look like I would play the WASP-y wife?”
We later learn that the model, who is the heroine, is a Connecticut Wasp disappointed in her arrival in the big city.
In his memoir, Belfort describes Danny Porush (the real Azoff) as a Jewish Long Islander with WASP pretensions.
A WASP-y Smith alumna named Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) has a lesbian affair after college.
Soon after he had some lively service in the Wasp, and captured a British privateer with the little sloop Sachem.
Of the 110 men on the Frolic there were not twenty alive and unhurt, while on the Wasp only five were dead and five wounded.
The game was up with the Wasp and her prize, for the new ship was the Poictiers, a great seventy-four ship-of-the-line.
The honey in this pot was once a wasp's nest, but since being transformed it has become sweet and delicious.
The first thing the Wasp found at sea was a mighty gale of wind, that blew "great guns" for two days.