Crossword-Solution: WASPY
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WASPY | anagram | YAWPS |
We have 11 clues for the answer “WASPY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like a hornet | 1 answer |
| Like some old-money Americans | 1 answer |
| Slender-waisted | 1 answer |
| Slender-waisted, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Stereotypically upper-class | 1 answer |
| Stereotypically upper-crust | 1 answer |
| indocile | 5 answers |
| Snappish | 72 answers |
| cranky | 74 answers |
| Cantankerous | 77 answers |
| Irritable | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEAZCE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with WASPY (5)
What do you think of this, now?” He opened one of the magazines and pointed to the picture of a young girl, with a waspy waist and Lilliputian feet, who, arrayed in flounces and furbelows, was toddling gingerly down a flight of marble steps.
Taken to task by a friendly critic for his odd omission, he deigned to reply: "Well, I feel about it a good deal like that big, burly, good-natured canal laborer who had a little waspy bit of a wife, in the habit of beating him.
Mine is in June, and Waspy and I always have a treat of some kind." "Miss Waspe also says, Marjory, that she is very glad indeed that you are going to be her pupil, and is looking forward to the term's work with two of you to teach." Marjory blushed with pleasure.
Presently disappearing beneath a small plantain leaf, she quickly emerged, drawing behind her not a spider, as in the case of her smaller predecessor, but a big green caterpillar, nearly double her own length, and as large around as a slate-pencil--a peculiar, pungent, waspy-scented species of "puss-moth" larva, which is found on the elm, and with which I chanced to be familiar.
Waspy tells you how you may get the support of the active generation." "Yes,--by playing literary Grimaldi an hour or so for their diversion! A very good recipe, were it not probable that the elder portion of the town would fail to see the humor of it." "But you may be certain that everybody likes to laugh at a lyceum-lecture." "Everybody but a clique of pseudo-wiseacres in Foxden perhaps may," I replied.
Quotes with WASPY (2)
I was a heathen Jewess with no bat mitzvah. Only the neurosis, the brown hair, and the self-deprecating humor. But being one of the only Jewish kids in my WASPy hometown definitely informed my perspective on the humor of being an outsider.
I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my parents moved to Winnetka, Illinois, an upper class, WASPy suburb where Jews - as well as Blacks and Catholics - were unwelcome on many blocks. I suffered the spiritual equivalent of whiplash.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1973–2022).