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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

wasp around en · VERB

Meanings

  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

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
wasping around Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
wasps around Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
wasped around Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
wasped around Tense=Past lexicographic