cox

Etymology

Clipping of coxswain.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɒks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) enPR: käks, IPA^(key): /kɑks/
• Rhymes: -ɒks
• Homophone: cocks

Noun

cox (plural coxes)

1. A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew. [from mid-19th c.]
   • 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] ‎:

     A particularly nervous boy was appointed cox, and the steering principle explained to him by Joskins. Joskins himself took stroke. He told the others that it was simple enough; all they had to do was to follow him.

Verb

cox (third-person singular simple present coxes, present participle coxing, simple past and past participle coxed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To act as coxswain for.

   The physicist Stephen Hawking used to cox for a college rowing team.

   I coxed the lightweight 4+ yesterday.

Anagrams

• CXO, CxO

Noun

cox

1. A crested guan, Penelope purpurascens

Etymology

From English cox.

Noun

cox c

1. (rowing) a cox

   Synonym: styrman

References

• cox in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• cox in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Etymology

C.f. Classical Nahuatl cuix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koʃ/

Adverb

cox

1. maybe, perhaps

   Synonyms: beli̱s, cana, mati̱

References

• Brewer, Forrest, Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published 1971, pages 82, 94, 117