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waxish

waxish adjective: similar to wax.

Adjective

waxish (comparative more waxish, superlative most waxish)

  1. Similar to wax.
    • The Aunts just stand and tip waxish cups of punch to their faces.1986, Gargoyle, page 5
    • A hand floated beside the corpse, waxish white, looking more like a claw than ever.2016, Sigrid Weidenweber, From Gulag to Freedom, →ISBN

Forms of waxish

comparativemore waxish
superlativemost waxish

Origin of waxish

From wax + -ish.

Questions about waxish

What does waxish mean?
Waxish means similar to wax.
What part of speech is waxish?
Waxish is an adjective.

Words near waxish in the dictionary

  1. waxing someone's tail
  2. waxing the dolphin
  3. waxing up
  4. waxing wode
  5. waxings
  6. waxish
  7. WAxit
  8. Waxler
  9. Waxlers
  10. waxless
  11. waxlessness

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