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waxed poetic

waxed poetic is the simple past and past participle of wax poetic.

Meaning of wax poetic

Verb

wax poetic (third-person singular simple present waxes poetic, present participle waxing poetic, simple past and past participle waxed poetic)

  1. (intransitive) To become increasingly verbose.
  2. (derogatory, intransitive, often) To speak in an increasingly verbose manner, as if constructing poetry.

Questions about waxed poetic

What is waxed poetic the simple past and past participle of?
Waxed poetic is the simple past and past participle of wax poetic.

Words near waxed poetic in the dictionary

  1. waxed lyrical
  2. waxed on
  3. waxed paper
  4. waxed papers
  5. waxed philosophical
  6. waxed poetic
  7. waxed someone's tail
  8. waxed the dolphin
  9. waxed wode
  10. waxedst
  11. waxen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: waxed poetic (page history and authors); wax poetic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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