waps
English
Etymology 2
From Old English wæps (“wasp”), showing metathesis from wæsp.
Noun
waps (plural wapses)
- (cheifly African-American Vernacular and UK, dialectal) Alternative form of wasp.
Middle English
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian *waps, from Proto-Germanic *wapsō.
Further reading
- “waps (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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