单词 | poxed |
释义 | poxedadj. Infected with the pox; (in weakened use) spotty.In quot. 1678 as a general expression of contempt or irritation (cf. pox n. 2, poxy adj.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [adjective] > syphilis > infected with pockyc1350 French-sick1605 Frenchified1607 pock-rotten1616 poxed1678 Gallican1694 syphilitic1787 pox-fouleda1915 1678 J. Phillips Maronides vi. 75 They laid their poxt commands upon me. 1682 J. Dryden Medall 16 And the pox'd Nation feels Thee in their Brains. 1782 J. Aitken Elements Theory & Pract. Physic & Surg. II. i. 33 (note) In poxed, scrophulous, and gouty patients. 1936 D. Thomas Let. 21 Aug. (1985) 236 I'm not dead or poxed—much—or paralysed or mute; just depressed as hell. 1996 J. King Football Factory (1997) 229 Real old-time street fighters these ones in their donkey-jackets, with scarred faces and poxed skin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1678 |
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