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waspwaisted

waspwaisted is the alternative form of wasp-waisted.

Meaning of wasp-waisted

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

Forms of waspwaisted

comparativemore waspwaisted
superlativemost waspwaisted

Questions about waspwaisted

What is waspwaisted the alternative form of?
Waspwaisted is the alternative form of wasp-waisted.

Words near waspwaisted in the dictionary

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

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