Having the appearance, texture, or consistency of wax; smooth and shiny, or sometimes slippery.
From Old English 'weax' (wax), likely from Germanic roots. The '-y' suffix converts the noun to an adjective. The word has maintained its core meaning since Anglo-Saxon times.
Waxy isn't just about texture—it's actually a medical term! Doctors use 'waxy flexibility' to describe a symptom in some psychiatric conditions where a patient's limbs stay in posed positions like a wax figure.
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