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wak see

  • a  made of or covered with wax
    careful, the floor is waxy
  • a  easily impressed or influenced
    a waxy mind
  • s  capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking
  • s  having the paleness of wax
    a thin face with a waxy paleness

  • Louise Lasser is the eponymous housewife, anesthetized by TV and horrified by the "waxy yellow buildup" on her kitchen floor.
  • Though Union's experimental retort needs no water, the waxy shale crude does not flow well in a pipeline unless carried along by water, and the nearest source is the Colorado River .
  • To find out more about the genesis of this project, visit waxy.
News & Articles

  • Sports Notebook: 7/18
    FMF presents Jim Plunkett Night: Foxboro Midget Football is holding a fundraiser at Waxy O'Connor's on Friday, Aug. 18 to benefit its football program. Musician Jim Plunkett will perform starting at 8 p.m. with doors opening at 7. A buffet will also be served.
    July 25, 2013 - Foxboro Reporter
Quotes

  • Mike Honda in San Francisco Chronicle
    Already, "you can get tennis balls put together (from) nanoscale particles, and you can get pants that have nanoparticles in them that make wine run off rather than staining the pants -- they're so waxy, it's like a well-waxed car," Honda said....
  • Janet Maslin in BBC News
    Rocky II has a waxy feeling, and it never comes to life the way its predecessor did,wrote Janet Maslin in the New York Times.
  • John Hodgman in Boston Globe (registration)
    Ted Kennedy's, Hodgman said, was "waxy drunken pink."

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