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Locust vs Wasp - What's the difference?

locust | wasp |

As nouns the difference between locust and wasp

is that locust is a type of grasshopper in the family acrididae that flies in swarms and is very destructive to crops and other vegetation while wasp is any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet or bee or wasp can be a member of the dominant american upper-class culture, a white anglo-saxon protestant.

locust

English

(wikipedia locust)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A type of grasshopper in the family Acrididae that flies in swarms and is very destructive to crops and other vegetation.
  • A locust tree.

    • Usage notes

    * sometimes confused with locus

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    wasp

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (referring to the insect's woven nests). Compare Dutch (m), German (m), Danish (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet or bee.
  • A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.
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    Etymology 2

    Originally an acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A member of the dominant American upper-class culture, a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

    • See also

    * cracker * honky

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