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waxy (adj.)

early 15c., "made of wax," from wax (n.) + -y (2). Figurative use from 1590s. Meaning "like wax" is from 1799. Related: Waxiness.

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wax (n.)
Old English weax "substance made by bees," from Proto-Germanic *wahsam (source also of Old Saxon, Old High German wahs, Old Norse vax, Dutch was, German Wachs), from PIE root *wokso- "wax" (source also of Old Church Slavonic voskŭ, Lithuanian vaškas, Polish wosk, Russian vosk "wax" (but these may be from Germanic).

Used of other similar substances from 18c. Slang for "gramophone record" is from 1932, American English (until the early 1940s, most original records were made by needle-etching onto a waxy disk which was then metal-plated to make a master). Waxworks "exhibition of wax figures representing famous or notorious persons" first recorded 1796.
-y (2)
adjective suffix, "full of or characterized by," from Old English -ig, from Proto-Germanic *-iga- (source also of Dutch, Danish, German -ig, Gothic -egs), from PIE -(i)ko-, adjectival suffix, cognate with elements in Greek -ikos, Latin -icus (see -ic). Originally added to nouns in Old English; used from 13c. with verbs, and by 15c. even with other adjectives (for example crispy).

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Definitions of waxy from WordNet

waxy (adj.)
made of or covered with wax;
careful, the floor is waxy
Synonyms: waxen
waxy (adj.)
easily impressed or influenced;
a waxy mind
Synonyms: impressionable / impressible
waxy (adj.)
capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking;
Synonyms: bendable / pliable / pliant
waxy (adj.)
having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker;
a thin face with a waxy paleness
Synonyms: waxen / waxlike
From wordnet.princeton.edu

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