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wasp-waisted

wasp-waisted adjective: having a very slim waist, especially as a result of tightly-laced clothing.

Adjective

wasp-waisted (comparative more wasp-waisted, superlative most wasp-waisted)

  1. Having a very slim waist, especially as a result of tightly-laced clothing.
    • Last week she had opened a door by mistake on a staircase in Bayswater and a woman in a tight black waspwaisted corset, pearls lolling between two great naked breasts, stood by a cage made of gold wire the size of a fourposter bed, in which were a dozen or so brilliantly fringed and tinted birds.1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, HarperCollins, published 1993, page 33
    • He strutted down Bond Street with the best of them, decked out in his top hat, wasp-waisted coat and silk hose.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 11

wasp-waisted meaning in Tamil

wasp-waisted in Tamil

நுண்ணிடை வாய்ந்த

Examples of wasp-waisted in a sentence

  • Being a devotee of the Johnny Weismuller school of Tarzaning, no wasp-waisted cartoon character can get my blood aboil.1999 July 18, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Atlanta, Ga, page 8:
  • "Housewife" recalls too strongly the wasp-waisted 1950s figure outwardly thrilling to the latest advances in domestic technology while necking tranquillisers to dull the pain of frustrated ambition.2011 October 12, Lucy Mangan, The Guardian:

Forms of wasp-waisted

comparativemore wasp-waisted
superlativemost wasp-waisted

Origin of wasp-waisted

Referring to the slender petiole of a wasp.

Questions about wasp-waisted

What does wasp-waisted mean?
Wasp-waisted means having a very slim waist, especially as a result of tightly-laced clothing.
What is wasp-waisted in Tamil?
Wasp-waisted in Tamil is நுண்ணிடை வாய்ந்த. See Wasp-waisted meaning in Tamil.
How do you use wasp-waisted in a sentence?
Being a devotee of the Johnny Weismuller school of Tarzaning, no wasp-waisted cartoon character can get my blood aboil.
What part of speech is wasp-waisted?
Wasp-waisted is an adjective.

Words near wasp-waisted in the dictionary

  1. wasp nest beetles
  2. wasp spider
  3. wasp spiders
  4. wasp waist
  5. wasp waists
  6. wasp-waisted
  7. waspdom
  8. wasped
  9. wasped around
  10. waspfish
  11. waspfishes

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