Half-waxen

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    half-grown; partially completed; incomplete not-comparable

    "That ghastly broken doll — half-waxen, half-human — stumbled its way in and out of Joan's dreams. . . . […]"

Example

More examples

"That ghastly broken doll — half-waxen, half-human — stumbled its way in and out of Joan's dreams. . . . […]"

Etymology

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

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