Meanings
adjectivehalf-waxen (not comparable)
- not comparablehalf-grown; partially completed; incomplete
Beyond the marina, lights danced on the dark water—buoys, boats, a half-waxen moon.
2015, Kevin Egan, The Missing Piece1 more example
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
Origin
- Middle Englishhalf-waxen
- Englishhalf-waxen
From Middle English half-waxen, equivalent to half- + waxen (“grown”).
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half-waxen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/half-waxen
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Chicago
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