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▪ I. † ˈboxy, a.1 Obs. rare.
[f. box n.1 + -y1.]
Of or like boxwood.
1552Huloet, Boxie or of Boxe. 1608Topsell Serpents 677 This egge is..sometimes of a boxy..colour. 1658Rowland Mouffet's Theat. Ins. 959 Two cornicles like feathers, of a yellow or boxie colour.
▪ II. boxy, a.2|ˈbɒksɪ|
[f. box n.2 + -y1.]
1. Resembling a box in shape; comparable to a box.
a1861T. Winthrop John Brent (1883) xxvi. 222 A frowzy county town, with a dusty public square, a boxy church, and a spittley court-house. 1883W. Harcourt in A. G. Gardiner Life (1923) I. 492 A tall boxy house will not look well there. 1928Observer 26 Feb. 20/2 A very covered and boxy effect. 1959Landfall XIII. 122 Her nose was flat, with square boxy nostrils.
b. spec. Of clothes: having a squared appearance.
1936Times 10 June 19/6 It may be of pique or linen in a short boxy swagger style. 1960Woman 23 Apr. 15/1 A good, firm binding that gives a tailored look to a boxy jacket.
2. Of the feet of a horse or mule: high and narrow.
1908Animal Managem. 224 ‘Mule’, ‘boxy’, ‘narrow’, or ‘club’ feet are the opposite of ‘flat’. Ibid. 271 The feet [of the mule] are narrow and boxy, as compared with the horse.
3. Of recorded or reproduced sound: lacking a full range of tone; sounding as if enclosed in a box.
1941Time 14 Apr. 55/1 The recording—taken from a radio performance—sounds boxy. 1952Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Dec. 812/2 The recording is unthinkably boxy. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio ii. 50 The results seem to sound more boxy than they should. |