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faxed

adj
/fækst/

Etymology

From Middle English *faxed, from Old English feaxed, ġefeaxed (“haired; having hair”), from Old English feax (“hair”). More at fax.

  1. derived from feax
  2. inherited from feaxed
  3. inherited from *faxed✻

Definitions

  1. Having a head of hair

    Having a head of hair; hairy.

    • A comet is a ‘faxed’ star, that is, a hairy, a tailed star. But ‘faxed’ got corrupted into ‘fixed’ star during the seventeenth century.

  2. simple past and past participle of fax

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for faxed. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA