TubeTalkTubeTalk Pronunciation
How to pronounce “close as wax”
Hear “close as wax” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for close as wax
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of close as wax with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 0 YouTube examples
- Definition summary
- (simile, colloquial) miserly, tight, or secretive
No examples found yet
No TubeTalk examples are available for "close as wax" yet. Try a related pronunciation target or check back as the index grows.
A Deep Dive Into “close as wax”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (simile, colloquial) miserly, tight, or secretive
Practice Nearby Words
tight, close, tighter than wallpaper, close-fisted, miserly, narrow-fisted, airtight, tight-assed, close-handed, tight-fisted, tight as a duck's arse, near, scrinchy, penny-pinching, tightwaddish, dry-fisted, close-tongued, closehanded, tightfisted, snippy, narrow-gutted, tightlipped, scrunty, incerative, tight as a tick, narrow, waxen, costive, penurious, narrow-souled, scrooge-like, scanty, chintzy, waxish, snug, cereous, hard-fisted, strait-handed, tight-arsed, ankylosed, stingy, hidebound, waxlike, parsimonious, spareful, cheap, grippy, waxy, miserable, closemouthed, close-winded, cheeseparing, churlish, secretive, tight-fitting, weasellike, mingy, nippy, cerated, knappish, cramped, closetlike, closeted, private, close-fitting, scrimpy, wimplike, clammish, lockjawed, skimpy, mean, poky, tight-laced, retentive, strict, tightfitting, exiguous, loose-lipped, canny, lucripetous, windowy, nipply, waxworky, compact, timid as a mouse, closefitting, waspish, leasy, staunch, tightlaced, cagy, weaselish, porous, niggardish, sligh, warisome, cobwebby, scarce as hen's teeth, sparse, saponaceous
Similar Sounds
classics, clothes rack, kazakhs, climax, closeness, close eyes, close with, close ups, car wax, clausewitz