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