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poxy a.|ˈpɒksɪ|
[f. pox n. + y1.]
Infected with pox; spotty; fig., trashy, worthless. Also as a general term of abuse.
1922Joyce Ulysses 8 God knows what poxy bowsy left them off. 1950M. Peake Gormenghast xxii. 149 Every poxy sunrise of the year, eh, that you burst out of the decent darkness in that plucked way? 1958[see moor n.1 1 b]. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 171 Other unfortunates are ‘Spotty Dicks’..their friends call them: Bumps,..Crater face,..Pimple bonce, Poxie, and Scabby guts. 1968Bethell & Burg tr. Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward i. xix. 302 You know, that poxy-faced guy, the one with all the bandages. 1975J. Pidgeon Flame i. 8 No more poxy weddings, no more bloody favours. 1976J. O'Connor Eleventh Commandment ii. 31 The first tray..was full of poxy rings worth two or three quid. 1978K. Bonfiglioli All Tea in China iii. xi. 153 My poxy friend Peter. |