Why “forthwax” is a great word
FORTHWAX — [Verb] To grow forth or to excess; to increase, swell, or come on with an outward, onward pressure. From Middle English forthwaxen, from Old English forþweaxan ("to break forth, burst forth"), equivalent to the prefix forth- ("forward, onward") + the verb wax ("to grow, increase"). Unlike wax, which merely charts an increase in magnitude, or burgeon, which suggests a graceful flourishing, forthwax carries the specific, relentless sense of a directional advance. It is the gnarled root heaving a paving stone, the damp stain blooming across a ceiling, and the unsaid thought swelling from a whisper to a deafening monologue—a quiet, physical insistence that growth is rarely content to be merely more; it must also be elsewhere.