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half-waxen en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English half-waxen, equivalent to half- + waxen (“grown”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) half-grown; partially completed; incomplete
    • Beyond the marina, lights danced on the dark water—buoys, boats, a half-waxen moon. 2015, Kevin Egan, The Missing Piece:
    • That ghastly broken doll — half-waxen, half-human — stumbled its way in and out of Joan's dreams. . . . […] 1989, Irene Rathbone, We That Were Young: