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单词 Waspy
释义 Waspy, a.2 orig. and chiefly U.S.|ˈwɒspɪ|
Also WASPy.
[f. Wasp n.2 + -y1.]
= Waspish a.2
1968N.Y. Times 23 July 41/1 Black-power stalwarts suspiciously eying the Waspy surroundings.1975Publishers Weekly 9 June 61/3 Max Herschel, a high-powered industrialist in his 60s, coarse but with all the trappings of class, has lost his..mistress Bones to Steven Routledge, who is the antithesis of Max, WASPy, idealistic, a failed novelist.1978M. Puzo Fools Die xxxiii. 383 A slim, Waspy, forty-year-old ex-debutante.




Add: Hence ˈWaspily adv., ˈWaspiness n.
1983Time 15 Aug. 69/3 One Life [to Live]..integrated assorted ethnic types into the white-bread Waspiness of Soapland.1985Washington Post 18 May c9/6 Michael Chaban..is rather WASPily handsome as Alonso.1989Chicago Tribune 22 Jan. xii. 10/4 Washington is a city of neighborhoods, and most of them are nowhere near as waspily white-bread as the president.
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