pox

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From the plural of Middle English pocke. See also pock.

• (US) IPA^(key): /pɑks/

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• Rhymes: -ɒks
• Homophone: pocks

pox (countable and uncountable, plural poxes)

1. A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.
2. Syphilis.
3. (figurative) A curse.
   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     A pox on him, he's a cat still.

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.
   • [1750?], Dr. [John] Arbuthnot, “The History of John Bull: Part II, Chapter III”, in The History of John Bull [by Dr. Arbuthnot]. And Poems on ſeveral Occasions by Dr. Jonathan Swift, with Several Miſcellaneous Pieces, by Dr. Swift and Mr. Pope, London: D. Midwinter, A. Tonson, page 60:

     Jack had a moſt ſcandalous tongue, and perſuaded Peg that all mankind, beſides himſelf, were pox'd by that ſcarlet-faced whore, †Signiora Bubonia. “As for his brother Lord Peter, the tokens were evident on him, blotches, ſcabs, and the corona. […] ”

From Proto-Turkic *bok (“dirt, dung”). Cognate with Turkish bok, Salar boq, Chuvash пӑх (păh) etc.

• IPA^(key): /pox/

pox (definite accusative poxu, plural poxlar)

1. (vulgar) shit (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowel)

• sıçmaq (“to shit”)

• IPA^(key): /poʃ/

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