Waviest vs Waxiest - What's the difference?
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(wavy)
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.
(goose).
* 1862 , in The Zoologist: a popular miscellany of natural history , volume 20, page 7835:
* 1888 , in the Journals of the Senate of Canada , volume 22, Appendix 1, page 237:
(waxy)
Resembling wax in texture or appearance.
(regional, colloquial) Angry.
* 1913 ,
As adjectives the difference between waviest and waxiest
is that waviest is (wavy) while waxiest is (waxy).waviest
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Adjective
(head)wavy
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Etymology 1
Adjective
(er)Etymology 2
See wavey .Noun
(wavies)- 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.
- The blue and white wavies breed in the barren grounds and feed chiefly on berries.
waxiest
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(head)Anagrams
*waxy
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Etymology 1
From .Adjective
(er)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 spleenEtymology 2
From .Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.