"wasp-waisted" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Referring to the slender petiole of a wasp.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, HarperCollins, published 1993, page 33:",
          "text": "Last week she had opened a door by mistake on a staircase in Bayswater and a woman in a tight black waspwaisted corset, pearls lolling between two great naked breasts, stood by a cage made of gold wire the size of a fourposter bed, in which were a dozen or so brilliantly fringed and tinted birds.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 11:",
          "text": "He strutted down Bond Street with the best of them, decked out in in his top hat, wasp-waisted coat and silk hose.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 October 12, Lucy Mangan, The Guardian:",
          "text": "\"Housewife\" recalls too strongly the wasp-waisted 1950s figure outwardly thrilling to the latest advances in domestic technology while necking tranquillisers to dull the pain of frustrated ambition.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having a very slim waist, especially as a result of tightly-laced clothing."
      ],
      "id": "en-wasp-waisted-en-adj-FgnS~gWr",
      "links": [
        [
          "slim",
          "slim"
        ],
        [
          "waist",
          "waist"
        ],
        [
          "clothing",
          "clothing"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "wasp waist"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "s mnogo tǎnka talija",
          "sense": "having very slim waist",
          "word": "с много тънка талия"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "having very slim waist",
          "word": "ampiaisvyötäröinen"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "having very slim waist",
          "word": "darázsderekú"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wasp-waisted"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Referring to the slender petiole of a wasp.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more wasp-waisted",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most wasp-waisted",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "wasp waist"
    }
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        {
          "ref": "1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, HarperCollins, published 1993, page 33:",
          "text": "Last week she had opened a door by mistake on a staircase in Bayswater and a woman in a tight black waspwaisted corset, pearls lolling between two great naked breasts, stood by a cage made of gold wire the size of a fourposter bed, in which were a dozen or so brilliantly fringed and tinted birds.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 11:",
          "text": "He strutted down Bond Street with the best of them, decked out in in his top hat, wasp-waisted coat and silk hose.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 October 12, Lucy Mangan, The Guardian:",
          "text": "\"Housewife\" recalls too strongly the wasp-waisted 1950s figure outwardly thrilling to the latest advances in domestic technology while necking tranquillisers to dull the pain of frustrated ambition.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having a very slim waist, especially as a result of tightly-laced clothing."
      ],
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        [
          "slim",
          "slim"
        ],
        [
          "waist",
          "waist"
        ],
        [
          "clothing",
          "clothing"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "s mnogo tǎnka talija",
      "sense": "having very slim waist",
      "word": "с много тънка талия"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having very slim waist",
      "word": "ampiaisvyötäröinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having very slim waist",
      "word": "darázsderekú"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wasp-waisted"
}