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wasp around

wasp around verb: to hover or loiter aimlessly around a place.

Verb

wasp around (third-person singular simple present wasps around, present participle wasping around, simple past and past participle wasped around)

  1. To hover or loiter aimlessly around a place.
    • Sharp was a little man, had a long face, and his mouth seemed to have been bored — for it was round — about midway between his chin and his forehead; and he was always wasping around, giving consequential orders about nothing […]1875, Henry Hiram Riley, The Puddleford Papers: Or, Humors of the West, page 174

Forms of wasp around

third-person singular presentwasps around
present participlewasping around
past participlewasped around
pastwasped around

Questions about wasp around

What does wasp around mean?
Wasp around means to hover or loiter aimlessly around a place.
What part of speech is wasp around?
Wasp around is a verb.
What is the past tense of wasp around?
The past tense of wasp around is wasped around.

Words near wasp around in the dictionary

  1. wasnt
  2. WASO
  3. Wason
  4. Wasons
  5. wasp
  6. wasp around
  7. wasp beetle
  8. wasp beetles
  9. wasp moth
  10. wasp moths
  11. wasp nest beetle

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