[wɒsp], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a social winged insect which has a narrow waist and a sting and is typically yellow with black stripes. It constructs a paper nest from wood pulp and raises the larvae on a diet of insects

- a solitary winged insect with a narrow waist, mostly distantly related to the social wasps and including many parasitic kinds


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English wæfs, wæps, wæsp, of West Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin vespa; perhaps related to weave (from the weblike form of its nest)

[wɒsp], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an upper- or middle-class American white Protestant, considered to be a member of the most powerful group in society


Phrases:

Origin:
1960s: acronym from white Anglo-Saxon Protestant