pox

English

Etymology

From Middle English pokkes, plural of the ancestor of pock (which see).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /pɑks/
  • Rhymes: -ɒks
  • Homophone: pocks

Noun

pox (countable and uncountable, plural poxes)

  1. A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.
  2. Syphilis.
  3. (figuratively) A curse.
    • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, act IV, scene 3
      A pox on him, he's a cat still.

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Translations

Verb

pox (third-person singular simple present poxes, present participle poxing, simple past and past participle poxed)

  1. (transitive, dated) To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

Coatlán Mixe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /poʃ/

Noun

pox

  1. guava
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