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fix-fax

I. fix-fax1
    (ˈfɪksfæks)
    Also 9 dial. fic-fac, fig-fag.
    [See the variant pax-wax.]
    The thick tendon in the neck of cattle or sheep.

[c 1280 W. de Biblesworth in Promp. Parv. 388 Et si ad le wenne (fex wex) au col derere.] c 1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 444 In þe nek þe fyxfax þat þow do away. [c 1500 Fr.-Eng. Glossary (Harl. MS. 219, f. 150) in Promp. Parv. 388 Le vendon, the fax wax.] 1691 Ray Creation (1714) 157 Which aponeurosis is taken notice of by the vulgar by the name of Fixfax—or Packwax. 1737 Bracken Farriery Impr. (1756) I. 317 The Fix-fax of the Neck. 1869 Lonsdale Gloss., Fixfax. 1878 Cumbrld. Gloss., Fic-fac, fig-fag.

II. ˈfix-fax2 Sc. Obs. rare—1.
    [Onomatopœic; the reduplication expresses hurried and repeated movements; cf. fidfad, Ger. fickfack, etc.]
    ‘Hurry, the middle of any business’ (Jam.).

1768 Ross Helenore ii. 326 When the're just i' the fix fax o' their din.

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