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English
Etymology 1
Noun
waps
- plural of wap
Verb
waps
- third-person singular simple present indicative of wap
Etymology 2
From Old English wæps (“wasp”).
Noun
waps (plural wapses)
- (chiefly African-American Vernacular and UK, dialectal) Alternative form of wasp.
Anagrams
- WSPA, Spaw, spaw, paws, wasp, WASP, APWs, PWAs, AWPs, PAWS, Wasp, swap
Middle English
Noun
waps
- Alternative form of wasp
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian *waps, from Proto-Germanic *wapsō.
Noun
waps c (plural wapsen, diminutive wapske)
- wasp
Further reading
- “waps (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011