waxer

[wak-ser]

noun

1. a person or appliance that polishes with or applies wax.

Word History and Origins

Origin of waxer¹

First recorded in 1870–75; wax ¹ + -er ¹

Example Sentences

That first podcast episode, with a Brazilian bikini waxer and a man named Captain Erotica, got roughly 75,000 downloads, she said — formidable considering how new the medium was.

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“It’s so inspiring,” my eyebrow waxer said.

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Having given it some thought, I then declared my love for IBM typewriters, the French word for bruise, and my electric floor waxer.

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It was a short list, but still I managed to mispronounce IBM and assign the wrong gender to both the floor waxer and the typewriter.

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How do you successfully communicate the pube shape you want to a waxer?

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