waxyadj.¹

Brit.

/ˈwaksi/, U.S.

/ˈwæksi/

Forms: Also 1600s waxey.

Etymology: < wax n.¹ + -y suffix¹.

†1. Made of wax, waxen. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > waxy materials > [adjective] > made of wax

waxenc1000

waxy1552

wax1585

ceroneous1657

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Waxie or of waxe, cæreus.

1615 Montgomerie's Cherrie & Slae v, in A. Ramsay Evergreen (1875) II. 101 And sum [bees] the waxie Veschells wrocht, Thair Purchase to preserve.

1625 T. May tr. J. Barclay in K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis v. i. 330 The Bees so sudden ioyes Their waxie-houses fill with buzzing noyse.

a. Having the nature or distinctive properties of wax.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > waxy materials > [adjective]

cereous1601

ceraceous1768

waxy1799

wax1859

ceral1883

1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) I. xiv. 434 Boil a quantity of honey in order to get all the waxy part out of it.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. at Elæagia These trees are remarkable for the quantity of green resinous or waxy matter which is secreted by the stipules.

1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 82 In company with the cuticular bodies there are usually found compounds of a waxy nature.

b. figurative. Of a person, his heart, mind: Soft, plastic, impressionable like wax.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > [adjective]

passiblec1384

susceptive1577

impressive1593

waxy1594

eath1596

impressible1626

mutual1657

responsive1657

open1672

susceptible1709

unsteeled1744

unblunted1775

sensate1788

affectible1796

tangible1813

suscipient1815

impressionable1833

impressional1860

unseared1860

reachable1873

passionful1902

1594 Willobie his Auisa xlii. f. 39^v If you had had a waxye hart, That would haue melt at hot desyre.

1608 Bp. J. Hall Characters Vertues & Vices ii. 111 He [sc. the Unconstant] is seruile in imitation, waxey to persuasions.

a1629 T. Goffe Couragious Turke (1632) ii. v. sig. D4^v Thinke you my minde is waxie to be wrought, By any fashion.

a1660 H. Hammond Serm. (1664) xvii. 287 Now..that the softer waxy part of you, may receive some impression from this discourse, let us close all with an Application.

1843 C. Dickens Let. 13 Nov. (1974) III. 598 If you will impress this on the waxy mind of —— I shall be truly and unaffectedly obliged to you.

a. Resembling wax in colour or consistence; (of a quality) like that of wax. Often said of boiled potatoes that have not become ‘mealy’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [adjective]

thickc888

toughc1000

cleavingc1350

gluey1382

gluish1382

gleiming1387

gummya1398

clammy1398

gleimy1398

viscosec1400

viscousc1400

emplastic?a1425

plastery?c1425

stiffc1430

clamc1440

engleimous?c1475

rawky1509

rich1535

clammish1543

limy1552

strong1560

glutinous1576

cloggy1587

emplastical1590

viscuous1603

plasterish1610

slaba1616

bound1635

viscid1635

lentous1646

spiscious1655

melleous1656

salivarious1656

glutining1658

syrupical1659

glairy1662

gummous1669

gummose1678

mellaginous1681

melligineous1684

pargety1684

sticky1688

sizy1691

dauby1697

syrupy1707

treacly?1734

glaireous1755

flabbyc1780

spissid1782

stodgy1823

waxy1835

teery1848

treacle-like1871

viscoid1877

slauming1904

gooey1906

gloopy1929

gunky1937

gungy1962

yucky1975

the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [adjective] > pale

blackeOE

blokec1200

blakec1275

fadec1290

bleykea1300

palisha1398

wanned1494

ashy?1541

wearish-coloured1548

wanny1555

wheyish1560

bleak1566

paly1568

ghastly1574

blankish1580

sick1599

palled1601

ashied1613

lurid1656

lunar1742

wax-like1748

ashen1808

unbrightened1827

waxy1835

peely-wally1895

waxen-hued1916

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 428/1 The..waxy appearance which those who are the subjects of this disease [i.e. chlorosis] generally exhibit.

1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet i, in New Monthly Mag. May 124 Great Philosophers talking like Platos,..And your ears as dull as waxy potatoes!

1845 Florist's Jrnl. (1846) 6 6 Ground colour a clear primrose, edging a bright purple, petals very waxy.

1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice xxviii There are two daughters, pretty little waxy girls they were.

1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 140 The general colour of the scorpion is a horrid-looking waxy brown.

1890 Lancet 16 Aug. 333/1 The fat is abnormally waxy and soft.

1905 R. Bagot Passport xxv. 268 The waxy whiteness of the rest of the face [in an old picture].

b. Medicine. Affected with amyloid degeneration.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [adjective] > alteration of tissue > degeneration

cheese-like1634

cheesy1662

caseous1684

waxy1845

fibroid1852

histolytic1853

amyloid1859

Wallerian1877

fibrosing1879

fibrotic1893

steatogene1893

steatogenous1899

histolysing1912

blastophthoric1913

hyalinized1929

fibrosed1956

steatogenic1956

1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 243 These characters are well expressed by the epithet ‘waxy,’ which has been applied to livers in this state by Dr. Home and Rokitansky.

1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. v. 750 Gall-stones..sometimes consist..of a nearly homogeneous waxy mass.

1881 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 5) 57 The waxy material is exceptionally deposited in large nodules, constituting the waxy tumors.

1881 W. H. Day Dis. Children 256 The lardaceous or waxy kidney.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 537 The diffuse, waxy spleen.

4. Soiled or covered with wax. In quots. as a derisive epithet for a cobbler.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > by other specific substances

clayeya1382

mealy1567

snuffy1765

iron-moulded1787

feathery1813

waxy1861

1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 76/1 Your child..called me cobbler waxy, waxy, waxy.

1914 A. Macdonald Story & Song fr. Loch Ness-side xiii. 223 They got there [i.e. into the fairy mound], and immediately observed the ‘waxy cobbler’ still dancing.

Compounds

waxy-faced adj.

ΚΠ

1845 C. Dickens Cricket on Hearth i. 2 The little waxy-faced Dutch clock in the corner.

1927 Scots Observer 1 Jan. 3/1 Barefoot women..some with waxy~faced infants in their arms.

waxy-looking adj.

ΚΠ

1859 D. Bunce Trav. with Dr. Leichhardt vi. 44 A race of plants having waxy-looking berries.

1871 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. 65 The cut-surface is..translucent, and waxy-looking.

1915 E. R. Lankester Diversions of Naturalist xviii. 166 We found..whole banks covered with the waxy-looking flowers..of the large milkwort.

1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xxii. 328 Oedema is usually not marked, but all over the posterior pole there tend to gather hard, white or yellow, waxy-looking patches of exudates.

waxy-skinned adj.

ΚΠ

1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel i. 34 He was a sharpnosed waxyskinned young man.

waxy-white adj.

ΚΠ

1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary xxvii. 323 His nostrils were waxy white with rage.

1954 A. G. L. Hellyer Encycl. Garden Work 452 Kindingeri, waxy-white, reddish at base.

Derivatives

ˈwaxily adv.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > waxy materials > [adverb]

waxily1880

1880 Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 15 98 Shell..not thin, but waxily translucent.

1890 Sat. Rev. 22 Nov. 588/2 [He] was originally a sculptor, and now paints rather waxily, as if he were modelling in oil-colour.

ˈwaxiness n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > waxy materials > [noun] > quality of being waxy

waxiness1855

1855 H. Clarke New Dict. Eng. Lang. Waxiness.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

waxyadj.²

Brit.

/ˈwaksi/, U.S.

/ˈwæksi/

Etymology: < wax n.³ + -y suffix¹.

colloquial or slang.

Angry, ‘in a wax’. A supposed example of 1648 in the Hamilton Papers (Camden) 229 is an editorial misreading of wary.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > [adjective]

irrec825

gramec893

wemodc897

wrothc950

bolghenc1000

gramelyc1000

hotOE

on fireOE

brathc1175

moodyc1175

to-bollenc1175

wrethfulc1175

wraw?c1225

agrameda1300

wrathfula1300

agremedc1300

hastivec1300

irousa1340

wretheda1340

aniredc1350

felonc1374

angryc1380

upreareda1382

jealous1382

crousea1400

grieveda1400

irefula1400

mada1400

teena1400

wraweda1400

wretthy14..

angryc1405

errevousa1420

wrothy1422

angereda1425

passionatec1425

fumous1430

tangylc1440

heavy1452

fire angry1490

wrothsomea1529

angerful?1533

wrothful?1534

wrath1535

provoked1538

warm1547

vibrant1575

chauffe1582

fuming1582

enfeloned1596

incensed1597

choleric1598

inflameda1600

raiseda1600

exasperate1601

angried1609

exasperated1611

dispassionate1635

bristlinga1639

peltish1648

sultry1671

on (also upon) the high ropes (also rope)1672

nangry1681

ugly1687

sorea1694

glimflashy1699

enraged1732

spunky1809

cholerous1822

kwaai1827

wrathy1828

angersome1834

outraged1836

irate1838

vex1843

raring1845

waxy1853

stiff1856

scotty1867

bristly1872

hot under the collar1879

black angry1894

spitfire1894

passionful1901

ignorant1913

hairy1914

snaky1919

steamed1923

uptight1934

broigus1937

lemony1941

ripped1941

pissed1943

crooked1945

teed off1955

ticked off1959

ripe1966

torqued1967

bummed1970

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxiv. 250 It would cheer him up more than anything, if I could make him a little waxy with me.

1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. Waxey, peevish, cross, irritable. Ex. You need-na be so waxey.

1872 Punch 1 June 222/1 It's no good being waxy about it.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	waxy
释义	waxyadj.¹ Brit. /ˈwaksi/, U.S. /ˈwæksi/ Forms: Also 1600s waxey. Etymology: < wax n.¹ + -y suffix¹. †1. Made of wax, waxen. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > waxy materials > [adjective] > made of wax waxenc1000 waxy1552 wax1585 ceroneous1657 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Waxie or of waxe, cæreus. 1615 Montgomerie's Cherrie & Slae v, in A. Ramsay Evergreen (1875) II. 101 And sum [bees] the waxie Veschells wrocht, Thair Purchase to preserve. 1625 T. May tr. J. Barclay in K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis v. i. 330 The Bees so sudden ioyes Their waxie-houses fill with buzzing noyse. 2. a. Having the nature or distinctive properties of wax. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > waxy materials > [adjective] cereous1601 ceraceous1768 waxy1799 wax1859 ceral1883 1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) I. xiv. 434 Boil a quantity of honey in order to get all the waxy part out of it. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. at Elæagia These trees are remarkable for the quantity of green resinous or waxy matter which is secreted by the stipules. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 82 In company with the cuticular bodies there are usually found compounds of a waxy nature. b. figurative. Of a person, his heart, mind: Soft, plastic, impressionable like wax. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > [adjective] passiblec1384 susceptive1577 impressive1593 waxy1594 eath1596 impressible1626 mutual1657 responsive1657 open1672 susceptible1709 unsteeled1744 unblunted1775 sensate1788 affectible1796 tangible1813 suscipient1815 impressionable1833 impressional1860 unseared1860 reachable1873 passionful1902 1594 Willobie his Auisa xlii. f. 39^v If you had had a waxye hart, That would haue melt at hot desyre. 1608 Bp. J. Hall Characters Vertues & Vices ii. 111 He [sc. the Unconstant] is seruile in imitation, waxey to persuasions. a1629 T. Goffe Couragious Turke (1632) ii. v. sig. D4^v Thinke you my minde is waxie to be wrought, By any fashion. a1660 H. Hammond Serm. (1664) xvii. 287 Now..that the softer waxy part of you, may receive some impression from this discourse, let us close all with an Application. 1843 C. Dickens Let. 13 Nov. (1974) III. 598 If you will impress this on the waxy mind of —— I shall be truly and unaffectedly obliged to you. 3. a. Resembling wax in colour or consistence; (of a quality) like that of wax. Often said of boiled potatoes that have not become ‘mealy’. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [adjective] thickc888 toughc1000 cleavingc1350 gluey1382 gluish1382 gleiming1387 gummya1398 clammy1398 gleimy1398 viscosec1400 viscousc1400 emplastic?a1425 plastery?c1425 stiffc1430 clamc1440 engleimous?c1475 rawky1509 rich1535 clammish1543 limy1552 strong1560 glutinous1576 cloggy1587 emplastical1590 viscuous1603 plasterish1610 slaba1616 bound1635 viscid1635 lentous1646 spiscious1655 melleous1656 salivarious1656 glutining1658 syrupical1659 glairy1662 gummous1669 gummose1678 mellaginous1681 melligineous1684 pargety1684 sticky1688 sizy1691 dauby1697 syrupy1707 treacly?1734 glaireous1755 flabbyc1780 spissid1782 stodgy1823 waxy1835 teery1848 treacle-like1871 viscoid1877 slauming1904 gooey1906 gloopy1929 gunky1937 gungy1962 yucky1975 the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [adjective] > pale blackeOE blokec1200 blakec1275 fadec1290 bleykea1300 palisha1398 wanned1494 ashy?1541 wearish-coloured1548 wanny1555 wheyish1560 bleak1566 paly1568 ghastly1574 blankish1580 sick1599 palled1601 ashied1613 lurid1656 lunar1742 wax-like1748 ashen1808 unbrightened1827 waxy1835 peely-wally1895 waxen-hued1916 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 428/1 The..waxy appearance which those who are the subjects of this disease [i.e. chlorosis] generally exhibit. 1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet i, in New Monthly Mag. May 124 Great Philosophers talking like Platos,..And your ears as dull as waxy potatoes! 1845 Florist's Jrnl. (1846) 6 6 Ground colour a clear primrose, edging a bright purple, petals very waxy. 1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice xxviii There are two daughters, pretty little waxy girls they were. 1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 140 The general colour of the scorpion is a horrid-looking waxy brown. 1890 Lancet 16 Aug. 333/1 The fat is abnormally waxy and soft. 1905 R. Bagot Passport xxv. 268 The waxy whiteness of the rest of the face [in an old picture]. b. Medicine. Affected with amyloid degeneration. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [adjective] > alteration of tissue > degeneration cheese-like1634 cheesy1662 caseous1684 waxy1845 fibroid1852 histolytic1853 amyloid1859 Wallerian1877 fibrosing1879 fibrotic1893 steatogene1893 steatogenous1899 histolysing1912 blastophthoric1913 hyalinized1929 fibrosed1956 steatogenic1956 1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 243 These characters are well expressed by the epithet ‘waxy,’ which has been applied to livers in this state by Dr. Home and Rokitansky. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. v. 750 Gall-stones..sometimes consist..of a nearly homogeneous waxy mass. 1881 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 5) 57 The waxy material is exceptionally deposited in large nodules, constituting the waxy tumors. 1881 W. H. Day Dis. Children 256 The lardaceous or waxy kidney. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 537 The diffuse, waxy spleen. 4. Soiled or covered with wax. In quots. as a derisive epithet for a cobbler. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > by other specific substances clayeya1382 mealy1567 snuffy1765 iron-moulded1787 feathery1813 waxy1861 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 76/1 Your child..called me cobbler waxy, waxy, waxy. 1914 A. Macdonald Story & Song fr. Loch Ness-side xiii. 223 They got there [i.e. into the fairy mound], and immediately observed the ‘waxy cobbler’ still dancing. Compounds waxy-faced adj. ΚΠ 1845 C. Dickens Cricket on Hearth i. 2 The little waxy-faced Dutch clock in the corner. 1927 Scots Observer 1 Jan. 3/1 Barefoot women..some with waxy~faced infants in their arms. waxy-looking adj. ΚΠ 1859 D. Bunce Trav. with Dr. Leichhardt vi. 44 A race of plants having waxy-looking berries. 1871 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. 65 The cut-surface is..translucent, and waxy-looking. 1915 E. R. Lankester Diversions of Naturalist xviii. 166 We found..whole banks covered with the waxy-looking flowers..of the large milkwort. 1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xxii. 328 Oedema is usually not marked, but all over the posterior pole there tend to gather hard, white or yellow, waxy-looking patches of exudates. waxy-skinned adj. ΚΠ 1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel i. 34 He was a sharpnosed waxyskinned young man. waxy-white adj. ΚΠ 1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary xxvii. 323 His nostrils were waxy white with rage. 1954 A. G. L. Hellyer Encycl. Garden Work 452 Kindingeri, waxy-white, reddish at base. Derivatives ˈwaxily adv. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > waxy materials > [adverb] waxily1880 1880 Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 15 98 Shell..not thin, but waxily translucent. 1890 Sat. Rev. 22 Nov. 588/2 [He] was originally a sculptor, and now paints rather waxily, as if he were modelling in oil-colour. ˈwaxiness n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > waxy materials > [noun] > quality of being waxy waxiness1855 1855 H. Clarke New Dict. Eng. Lang. Waxiness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022). waxyadj.² Brit. /ˈwaksi/, U.S. /ˈwæksi/ Etymology: < wax n.³ + -y suffix¹. colloquial or slang. Angry, ‘in a wax’. A supposed example of 1648 in the Hamilton Papers (Camden) 229 is an editorial misreading of wary. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > [adjective] irrec825 gramec893 wemodc897 wrothc950 bolghenc1000 gramelyc1000 hotOE on fireOE brathc1175 moodyc1175 to-bollenc1175 wrethfulc1175 wraw?c1225 agrameda1300 wrathfula1300 agremedc1300 hastivec1300 irousa1340 wretheda1340 aniredc1350 felonc1374 angryc1380 upreareda1382 jealous1382 crousea1400 grieveda1400 irefula1400 mada1400 teena1400 wraweda1400 wretthy14.. angryc1405 errevousa1420 wrothy1422 angereda1425 passionatec1425 fumous1430 tangylc1440 heavy1452 fire angry1490 wrothsomea1529 angerful?1533 wrothful?1534 wrath1535 provoked1538 warm1547 vibrant1575 chauffe1582 fuming1582 enfeloned1596 incensed1597 choleric1598 inflameda1600 raiseda1600 exasperate1601 angried1609 exasperated1611 dispassionate1635 bristlinga1639 peltish1648 sultry1671 on (also upon) the high ropes (also rope)1672 nangry1681 ugly1687 sorea1694 glimflashy1699 enraged1732 spunky1809 cholerous1822 kwaai1827 wrathy1828 angersome1834 outraged1836 irate1838 vex1843 raring1845 waxy1853 stiff1856 scotty1867 bristly1872 hot under the collar1879 black angry1894 spitfire1894 passionful1901 ignorant1913 hairy1914 snaky1919 steamed1923 uptight1934 broigus1937 lemony1941 ripped1941 pissed1943 crooked1945 teed off1955 ticked off1959 ripe1966 torqued1967 bummed1970 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxiv. 250 It would cheer him up more than anything, if I could make him a little waxy with me. 1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. Waxey, peevish, cross, irritable. Ex. You need-na be so waxey. 1872 Punch 1 June 222/1 It's no good being waxy about it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.¹1552adj.²1853
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