WASPs
Old-money Americans
WASPs is the plural of WASP, an acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
The term describes Americans of British Protestant ancestry who historically dominated the country's social, political, and economic elite.
Often used critically to suggest privilege, insularity, or bland conformity: The club was full of WASPs in khakis and boat shoes.
The adjective is WASPy.
Pre-Conquest British Germanic peoples
- ProtestantPost-schism Western Christian
- eliteSuperior select group
- preppyPolished, traditional aesthetic
- country clubPrivate recreational membership facility
Ivy League · old money · Northeastern · establishment · privilege · boarding school · pedigree · debutante
Anglo-Saxon
Pre-Conquest British Germanic peoples
- ProtestantPost-schism Western Christian
- eliteSuperior select group
- preppyPolished, traditional aesthetic
country club · Ivy League · old money · Northeastern · establishment · privilege · boarding school · pedigree · debutante · blue blood
stinger
Venom-injecting body part
- nestAnimal-built shelter for young
- yellow jacketGround-nesting stinging insect
- hornetLarge aggressive wasp
venom · colony · queen · swarm · hive · sting · buzzing · predatory · larvae · pollinator
- wartime womenwar nurses, army nurses, military nurses, flight nurses, nurse corps
- Women AviatorsAmelia Earhart, aviatrix, aviation pioneers
WASPsimmigrants
Those settling abroad
minorities · ethnic minorities · Irish Catholics · people of color · African Americans
WASPsnew money
Self-earned, not inherited wealth
arrivistes · nouveau riche · social climbers · outsiders · working class
WASPsCatholics
Christians following Rome
Jews · Muslims · religious minorities · papists · American Jews
- wasp stingVenomous insect puncture
- wasp nestColony structure for stinging insects
- wasp sprayAerosol targeting flying stingers
- paper waspPulp-nest-building stinger
- giant wasp
- wasp waistExtremely slender midsection