wasp-waisted
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.62 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a very slim waist, especially as a result of tightly-laced clothing.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "He strutted down Bond Street with the best of them, decked out in his top hat, wasp-waisted coat and silk hose."
- "Being a devotee of the Johnny Weismuller school of Tarzaning, no wasp-waisted cartoon character can get my blood aboil."
- ""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."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more wasp-waisted (comparative)
most wasp-waisted (superlative)