wasp
/wɑsp/ verb C2- To move like a wasp; to buzz.
He/she/it wasps · Past wasped · Past participle wasped · -ing form wasping
Verb forms
- Base form
- wasp
- He/she/it
- wasps
- Past
- wasped
- Past participle
- wasped
- -ing form
- wasping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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## The Wasp and the Snake
A WASP seated himself upon the head of a Snake and, striking him unceasingly with his stings, wounded him to death.
It had a great mouth, with a row of sharp teeth a foot long; but its head was joined to the pudgy body by a neck as slender as a wasp’s waist.
The house was as still as still, but he thought he could just catch the faintest scratch-scratch in the world--a noise as faint as that of a wasp walking on a window-pane--the dry scratch of a snake’s scales on brick-work.
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