earwaxy
earwaxy adjective: resembling or characteristic of earwax.
Adjective
earwaxy (comparative more earwaxy, superlative most earwaxy)
- Resembling or characteristic of earwax.
- The fact that he was willing to stand there looking at the back of her neck, the place where her pearls were linked together with a silver clasp, the pulsing earwaxy sense of her eardrums against his fingertips, all of these ought to count for something.1998, James Finney Boylan, “Amherst College”, in Getting In, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, page 264
- While disassembling it to clean out all that nasty earwaxy cosmoline, I noticed the words "Schweiz Industrie-Gesellschaft, Neuhausen" engraved on the reciever.^([sic])1998 January 17, Superrdave, “Mosin Nagant....more questions :)”, in rec.guns (Usenet), archived from the original on 27 Feb 2024
- Covered with earwax.
- She goes through the rubbish in the bathroom looking for used "Q-tips" and then proceeds to eat the cotton and earwaxy bits.1999 February 1, Andrew Welsh, “catdroids spin silently on the spot”, in uk.misc (Usenet), archived from the original on 27 Feb 2024
- They don't get too dirty if you keep them in the case, and any earwax on them is from your own ear anyway. As a bonus, any earwax on the earplug is no longer in your ear, so in reality, you are cleaning your ears as you ride! […] Keep the shiny side up and the earwaxy part in!2001 July 20, Vincerama, “What is highest noise reduction rating in earplugs?”, in rec.motorcycles (Usenet), archived from the original on 27 Feb 2024
Examples of earwaxy in a sentence
- The sounds of happy children’s shoes tramping in the street and on the sidewalks, along with their laughter and excited anticipation of freedom, planted a bitter earwaxy taste in her mouth.2003, Alisa Vernon, chapter 1, in The Clearing Season, [Bloomington, Ind.]: 1stBooks, →ISBN, page 4:
- The site found out that if you burn an ear candle outside an ear, it produces a gross orangey earwaxy goo at the bottom to make you think the candle worked and removed your earwax.2006 September 10, Xenu-Slave, “Well, THAT was strange...!”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet), archived from the original on 27 Feb...
- The bigger Allflex or Nu-Zee type tags must have an irresistible earwaxy, scabby flavour to them when they fall out and dogs can’t resist them.2011, Peter Anderson, “Fainters”, in Peter Jerram, Peter Anderson, Cock and Bull Stories: Tales from Two Kiwi Country Vets, Auckland...
- The McDonald’s cheeseburger was indeed a bum sandwich in every sense of that notion: the tasteless grey disc of beef thin and flat, the cheese earwaxy, and the bread collapsed pap.2012 August 3, Fay Maschler, “The best fast food is on the street, not in the Olympic Park”, in Evening Standard, London, page 16, column 2:
Forms of earwaxy
| comparative | more earwaxy |
|---|---|
| superlative | most earwaxy |
Origin of earwaxy
From earwax + -y.
Questions about earwaxy
- What does earwaxy mean?
- Earwaxy means resembling or characteristic of earwax.
- How do you use earwaxy in a sentence?
- The sounds of happy children’s shoes tramping in the street and on the sidewalks, along with their laughter and excited anticipation of freedom, planted a bitter earwaxy taste in her mouth.
- What part of speech is earwaxy?
- Earwaxy is an adjective.
Words near earwaxy in the dictionary
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