waxy
See also: waxie
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: wăkʹsē, IPA(key): /ˈwæksi/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -æksi
Etymology 1
From Middle English waxi, wexy, equivalent to wax (“soft oily substance”) + -y.
Derived terms
Derived terms
- waxily
- waxiness
- waxy cap, waxycap
- waxy cast
- waxy corn
- waxy degeneration
- waxy disease
- waxy finger
- waxy flexibility
- waxy kidney
- waxy liver
- waxy maize
- waxy monkey leaf frog
- waxy potato
- waxy screw shell
- waxy spleen
Related terms
Translations
Resembling wax in texture or appearance
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Alternative forms
Adjective
waxy (comparative more waxy, superlative most waxy)
- (regional, colloquial) Angry.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Passion”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part II, page 341:
- A man said he'd give me five pounds if I'd paint him and his missis and the dog and the cottage. And I went and put the fowls in instead of the dog, and he was waxy, so I had to knock a quid off.
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