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Wavier vs Waxier - What's the difference?

wavier | waxier |

As adjectives the difference between wavier and waxier

is that wavier is (wavy) while waxier is (waxy).

wavier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (wavy)

    • Anagrams

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    wavy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Rising or swelling in waves.
  • Full of waves.
  • Moving to and fro; undulating.
  • Having wave-like shapes on its border or surface; waved.
  • (botany, of a margin) Moving up and down relative to the surface; undulate.
  • (heraldry) , in a wavy line; applied to ordinaries, or division lines.

    • Etymology 2

    See wavey .

    Noun

    (wavies)
  • (goose).
  • * 1862 , in The Zoologist: a popular miscellany of natural history , volume 20, page 7835:
    • According to Indian report, a great breeding-ground for the blue wavy is the country lying in the interior of the north-east point of Labrador, Cape Dudley Digges.
  • * 1888 , in the Journals of the Senate of Canada , volume 22, Appendix 1, page 237:
    • The blue and white wavies breed in the barren grounds and feed chiefly on berries.

    waxier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (waxy)

    • waxy

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Resembling wax in texture or appearance.
    • Derived terms
    * waxily * waxiness * waxy cap, waxycap * waxy cast * waxy corn * waxy degeneration * waxy disease * waxy finger * waxy flexibility * waxy kidney * waxy liver * waxy maize * waxy monkey leaf frog * waxy potato * waxy spleen

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (regional, colloquial) Angry.
  • * 1913 ,
    • A man said he'd give me five pounds if I'd paint him and his missis and the dog and the cottage. And I went and put the fowls in instead of the dog, and he was waxy , so I had to knock a quid off.