pox

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Polabian with x as a placeholder.

Symbol

pox

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Polabian.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Polabian terms

English

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pox

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /pɑks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• 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. (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.

Derived terms

• antipox
• a pox on
• buffalopox
• camelpox
• canarypox
• carp pox
• chicken pox
• cottonpox
• cowpox
• fowlpox
• French pox
• goatpox
• great-pox
• hog pox
• hornpox
• horsepox
• horse-pox
• kine-pox
• milkpox
• monkey pox
• monkeypox
• monkey-pox
• mousepox
• orthopox
• parapox
• plum pox
• pox doctor's clerk
• poxless
• poxlike
• pox party
• poxviral
• poxvirus
• poxy
• pseudopox
• rabbitpox
• raccoonpox
• rickettsialpox
• scrumpox
• sealpox
• sheeppox
• skunk pox
• smallpox
• squirrelpox
• swinepox
• Tanapox
• turkeypox
• volepox
• wartpox
• water pox
• whitepox

Translations

A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmark — see also smallpox,‎ variola

Bulgarian: шарка (bg) f (šarka) Catalan: buba (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 痘 (zh) (dòu) Finnish: rokko (fi), rokkotauti (fi) French: vérole (fr) f, variole (fr) f, petite vérole (fr) f Ingrian: ruikko Japanese: 痘瘡 (ja) (mogasa) Latin: variola f Persian: آبله (fa) (âbele) Polish: ospa (pl) f Portuguese: varíola (pt) f Russian: о́спа (ru) (óspa) Serbo-Croatian: boginje (sh) pl Vietnamese: đậu (vi)

syphilis — see syphilis

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.
   • [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. […] ”