Kex vs Wex - What's the difference?
kex | wex |
The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
(obsolete, botany) A plant having such a stem; a weed, a kecksy.
(rare) A dry husk or covering.
* 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, pp. 100-101:
As nouns the difference between kex and wex
is that kex is the dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants while wex is obsolete form of wax.As a verb wex is
obsolete form of wax.kex
English
Alternative forms
* kixNoun
(kexes)- On the bedside table a new package of cigarettes and a traveling clock had for neighbor a nicely wrapped box containing the green figurine of a girl skier which shone through the double kix .