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wasps around

wasps around is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wasp around.

Meaning of wasp around

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

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What is wasps around the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Wasps around is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wasp around.

Words near wasps around in the dictionary

  1. wasplike
  2. waspling
  3. wasplings
  4. waspnest
  5. wasps
  6. wasps around
  7. Wasps Nest
  8. waspwaisted
  9. waspy
  10. Wasrael
  11. wass

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