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bees·wax

   [beez-waks]
noun
1.
wax1 (def. 1).
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verb (used with object)
2.
to rub or treat with beeswax.

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Origin:
1670–80; bee1 + 's1 + wax1
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beeswax (ˈbiːzˌwæks)
 
—n
1.  a.  a yellowish or dark brown wax secreted by honeybees for constructing honeycombs
 b.  this wax after refining, purifying, etc, used in polishes, ointments, and for modelling
 
—vb
2.  (tr) to polish with such wax

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beeswax
1670s, from bee + wax. As a jocular alteration of business (usually in an injunction to someone to mind his own) attested from 1934 in Lower East Side slang as reproduced in Henry Roth's "Call It Sleep."
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beeswax definition

[ˈbizwæks]
  1. n.
    business; concern. (See also mind your own beeswax; none of (so's) beeswax.) : Tend to your own beeswax.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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