Definition of Wasp

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Definition of Wasp
	Wasp Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets. Related Definitions: Any, Are, Called, Genus, Hymenopterous, Numerous, Of, One, Or, Social, Some, Species, Stinging, The, True, Vespa, Which, Yellow

Wasp Quotations

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Chanakya

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
Nicolas de Chamfort

I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.
James Ellroy

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
Harry Mathews

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
Pope Paul VI

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
Charlotte Curtis

Wasp Translations

wasp in Danish is hveps
wasp in Dutch is wesp
wasp in Finnish is ampiainen
wasp in German is Wespe
wasp in Italian is vespa
wasp in Portuguese is vespa
wasp in Spanish is avispa
wasp in Swedish is geting

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