Waxy

Definitions: Waxy

Waxy

Adjective

1. Made of or covered with wax; "waxen candles"; "careful, the floor is waxy".

2. Resembling or covered with wax; "as shiny as a waxy pippin"; "the ceraceous surface of the leaves".

3. Having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "waxy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references)

Synonyms: Waxy

Resentment

Offended; Verb: waxy, acharne; wrought, worked up; indignant, hurt, sore; set against.

Unctuousness

Adjective: unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous; unguinous; fat, fatty, greasy; waxy, butyraceous, soapy, saponaceous, pinguid, lardaceous; slippery.

Crosswords: Waxy

He gets a kind of waxy build up in his ears. (Father Ted; writing credit: Graham Linehan; Arthur Mathews)

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Music

• Waxy Yellow Buildup (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Skin cancer may appear a small, smooth, shiny, pale, waxy lump. See artwork: RR-15b, WYNTK-22b.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Ziehl-Neelsen technique is used for staining acid-fast bacteria using a carbol-fuchsin solution, decolorizing in acid alcohol, and counterstaining with methylene blue. Mycobacteria have waxy coated cell walls which prevents Gram staining.Credit: CDC.

Ziehl-Neelsen technique is used for staining acid-fast bacteria using a carbol-fuchsin solution, decolorizing in acid alcohol, and counterstaining with methylene blue. Mycobacteria, have waxy coated cell walls which prevents Gram staining.Credit: CDC.

Ziehl-Neelsen technique is used for staining acid-fast bacteria using a carbol-fuchsin solution, decolorizing in acid alcohol, and counterstaining with methylene blue. Mycobacteria, have waxy coated cell walls which prevents Gram staining.Credit: CDC.

Character of farm land in the black waxy prairie of Texas. Williamson County, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

M. tuberculosis, like other mycobacteria, has an unusual cell wall, a waxy coat comprised of fatty molecules whose structure and function are not well known. (references)

But many don't realize that a high cholesterol level also contributes to stroke risk. Cholesterol, a waxy substance produced by the liver, is a vital body product. (references)

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Expressions using "waxy": waxy degeneration ♦ waxy kidney ♦ waxy liver ♦ waxy or lardaceous degeneration. Additional references.

Beginning with "waxy": waxy-cuticled, waxy-looking, waxy-yellow.

Albanian

prej dylli (wax, waxen), i lëmuar (ganoid, glace, glib, highbred, nice, polished, polite, refined, sleek, sleeken, sleeky, slick, smooth, smooth-faced, soft, unruffled, well mannered), i dylltë (wax, waxen). (various references)

Arabic 

‏شمعي, ‏شمعاني (waxen). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сприхав (breezy, combustible, hasty, high-spirited, hoity toity, hot tempered, hotheaded, irascible, irritable, peppery, petulant, quick tempered, short tempered, snappish, snappy, spicy, testy, violent), восъчен (wax, waxen), вбесен (livid, red-hot, wild), наподобяващ восък. (various references)

Chinese 

蜡状. (various references)

Czech

voskový (waxen). (various references)

Danish

voksholdig. (various references)

Dutch

washoudend. (various references)

Farsi 

پرازموم , مومی , عصبانی (Huffy, Mad, Maniac, Nervous, Nervy, Pelting), خشمگین (Exasperate, Indignant, Irate, Loathloth, Rabid, Snappish, Wroth). (various references)

Finnish

vahantapainen (wax-like). (various references)

French

en cire (waxen), cireux (waxen), céroïde. (various references)

German

wächsern (waxen). (various references)

Greek 

κηρώδησ, κηροειδές, εύπλαστοσ (ductile, malleable, plastic, pliable). (various references)

Hebrew 

דונגי (waxen). (various references)

Hungarian

viaszos (waxen), dühös (angry, furious, hot, irate, ratty, shirty, sick, to be choked, to be in a pet, upset, venomous, Wroth). (various references)

Italian

ceroide, cereo (waxen). (various references)

Korean 

밀랍. (various references)

Manx

kereagh (ctenoid, pectinate, serrated, waxen). (various references)

Pig Latin

axyway

Portuguese

zangado (angry, cross, crossly, fracture, hot, huffy, peevish), pálido como cera, irritado (angry, huffish, huffy, peeved, pettish, resentful, roily, snappish, snappy, snotty, sore, techy, testy, tetchy), ceroso (waxen), ceróide. (various references)

Romanian

moale ca de cearã (waxen), mânios (angry, black-browed, crazy, furious, furiously, high, hot, in warm blood, infuriated, ireful, out of temper, wrathful, wroth), ceros. (various references)

Russian 

восковой (wax, waxen). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sličan vosku. (various references)

Spanish

de cera (wax, waxen). (various references)

Swedish

vaxartad. (various references)

Turkish

sinirli (apoplectic, apoplectical, bristly, choleric, discomposedly, edgy, high strung, hot-blooded, hot-headed, huffish, huffy, ill-conditioned, in a pet, irate, ireful, irritable, jumpy, liverish, mad, nervous, nervy, on edge, out of humor, out of humour, peeved, pissed off, ratty, shirty, short tempered, sinewed, sinewy, spunky, testy, uptight, wild, wrought up), mumlu (waxen), kolay şekil alan (waxen), balmumu gibi, öfkeli (angry, bristly, dyspeptic, enraged, furious, heated, hot-blooded, ill-conditioned, in a pet, incensed, indignant, inflamed, ireful, pissed off, purple in the face, rabid, rampant, red-hot, snotty, sore, spunky, vehement, white hot, with his hackles up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought up). (various references)

Ukranian 

схожий на віск, розлючений (candent, enraged, furious, raging, savage, white hot, wrathy), восковий (wax, waxen), воскоподібний, піддатливий (accessible, amenable, applicant, compliant, flexible, malleable, plastic, pliant, ready, sequacious, squeezable, supple, waxen). (various references)

Vietnamese 

hay cáu (brittle, chippy, choleric, grouty, peevish, short-tempered), giống sáp; có màu sáp. (various references)

Misspellings

"Waxy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: awax, axy, caxy, haxy, vaxy, Wady, waey, wagy, waky, wasy, waty, waux, wawy, waxa, waxey, waxi, waxia, waxie, waxit, waxn, waxo, waxs, waya, wayb, wayi, waym, wayo, wazy, wdx, wexi, wiax, Wixey, wixy, woax, wux, wwx. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: wax, way, yaw.

-2 letters: aw, ax, ay, ya.

+2 letters: waxily.

+3 letters: taxiway.

+4 letters: taxiways, waxberry.

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