Waxed vs Raxed - What's the difference?
waxed | raxed |
(wax)
Of an object, coated or treated with wax in order to make it shiny or waterproof, or to protect it.
(rax)
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To stretch; stretch out.
* 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To reach out; reach or attain to.
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To extend the hand to; hand or pass something.
* 1825 , John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn and John Gibson Lockhart, Noctes Ambrosianæ No. XVIII'', in ''Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , vol. 17:
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To perform the act of reaching or stretching; stretch one's self; reach for or try to obtain something
(UK, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland, intransitive) To stretch after sleep.
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As verbs the difference between waxed and raxed
is that waxed is (wax) while raxed is (rax).As an adjective waxed
is of an object, coated or treated with wax in order to make it shiny or waterproof, or to protect it.waxed
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
*unwaxed *waxed cloth *waxed end *waxed jacket *waxed leather *waxed paperAnagrams
*raxed
English
Verb
(head)rax
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) raxen, .Verb
(es)- Shoeless, he stood naked on his toes, his arms raxed upwards.
- Please rax me the pitcher.
- Wha the mischief set him on reading me? I'm sure he could never read onything in a dacent-like way since he was cleckit—rax' me the Queen, and I'll let you hear a bit that will gar your hearts dinnle again—' rax me the Queen, I say.
