“Waspish”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

Waspish

释义

Waspish, a.² orig. and chiefly U.S.|ˈwɒspɪʃ|
Also Wasp-ish, WASPish.
[f. Wasp n.² + -ish¹.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of American white Protestant ‘Wasps’. Cf. Waspy a.²
1968Listener 27 June 843/3 Charles Newman, making a most impressive debut, gives in New Axis a picture of a community that is diametrically the opposite of Mr Baldwin's Harlem: that of an upper-middle-class WASPish suburb in an Illinois dormitory town.1974Times Lit. Suppl. 31 May 591/2 Postwar antisemitism in America... Echoes of haughty Waspish outrage..are to be heard in [this] silly novel about the marriage in 1946 of a sexy, clever Jewish girl from the wrong bit of New York to a handsome booby from an aristocratic Long Island family.1978E. Tidyman Table Stakes ii. v. 261 His WASPish good looks.1983Times 8 July 7/5 He is Scorsese's contemporary, but from a different, Wasp-ish social class.

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