Whacks Aplenty For She Who Confuses Her Waxing

LAST WEEK, WE considered wax as a noun. Now it's wax as a verb. At least two of these exist. The first is a clear offshoot of nouny wax: it is to wax, as in "I put my car in to be waxed" (that is, to be polished with wax). Or "she went to the beautician to be waxed" (to have wax applied for hair removal). So here wax equals doing something with wax.