Content tagged with “english” under “Stuff I Looked Up”

“A very odd usage for the word ‘wax’ is ‘to become.’ So to ‘wax nostalgic’ means to become nostalgic; get wrapped up in thoughts of the past. I had heard this before, and I understood it from context, but I was curious of the etymology behind that usage of ‘wax.’ I origin is not totally – it goes…”