boxyadj.²

Brit.

/ˈbɒksi/, U.S.

/ˈbɑksi/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: box n.², -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < box n.² + -y suffix¹.

†1. Enclosed in a box (in quot. with reference to the Eucharist; cf. box n.² 2a). Obsolete. Apparently an isolated use.

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1558 C. Goodman How Superior Powers ii. 27 Their rownde cake, which (they say) is consecrated, when with out sense and feeling it lieth closed in their box, subiecte to mowleinge, wormes, and corruption [margin] The boxy mowly, wormy, musty rotten and corrupted Christe.

a. Resembling a box in shape; comparable to a box; square or rectangular; cuboid. Often somewhat depreciative.Most frequently used in describing buildings or vehicles.

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the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [adjective] > like a box

box-like1742

boxy1834

1834 W. G. Simms Guy Rivers II. xxiii. 309 Then came the compact, boxy, buggy, buttoned-up vehicle of our friend the pedler—a thing for which the unfertile character of our language, as yet, has failed to provide a fitting name.

a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent (1883) xxvi. 222 A frowzy county town, with a dusty public square, a boxy church, and a spittley court-house.

1883 W. Harcourt in A. G. Gardiner Life W. Harcourt (1923) I. 492 A tall boxy house will not look well there.

1928 Observer 26 Feb. 20/2 A very covered and boxy effect.

1959 Landfall 13 122 Her nose was flat, with square boxy nostrils.

1978 N.Y. Times 29 Jan. (Automobile section) 3/1 The boxy shape of the car.

2000 M. A. Colety Prodigal Ones iii. 7 The dorm was a tall. boxy building on the outskirts of campus.

b. spec. Of clothes (esp. jackets or coats): having a squared appearance.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > other

smalleOE

lightc1230

round1402

side-necked1430

wanton1489

Spanish1530

tucked1530

lustya1555

civil1582

open-breasted1598

full1601

everlasting1607

sheeten1611

nothinga1616

burly1651

pin-up1677

slouching1691

double-breasted1701

negligée1718

translated1727

uniform1746

undress1777

single-breasted1796

unworn1798

mamalone1799

costumic1801

safeguard1822

Tom and Jerry1830

lightweight1837

fancy dress1844

wrap-1845

hen-skin1846

Mary Stuart1846

well-cut1849

mousquetaire1851

empire1852

costumary1853

solid1859

spring weight1869

Henri II1870

western1881

hard-boiled1882

man-of-war1883

Henley1886

demi-season1890

Gretchen1890

toreador1892

crossover1893

French cut1896

drifty1897

boxy1898

Buster Brown1902

Romney1903

modistic1907

Peter Pan1908

classic1909

Fauntleroy1911

baby doll1912

flared1928

flare1929

tuck-in1929

unpressed1932

Edwardian1934

swingy1937

topless1937

wraparound1937

dressed-down1939

cover-up1942

Sun Yat-sen1942

utility1942

non-utility1948

sudsable1951

off-the-shoulder1953

peasant1953

flareless1954

A-line1955

matador1955

stretch1956

wash-and-wear1959

layered1962

Tom Jones1964

Carnaby Street1965

Action Man1966

Mao-style1967

wear-dated1968

thermal1970

bondage1980

swaggery1980

hoochie1990

mitumba1990

kinderwhore1994

1898 Emporia (Kansas) Daily Gaz. 14 Nov. (advt.) New Top Coats... They are all cut in the popular, short boxy style, and half lined with silk.

1936 Times 10 June 19/6 It may be of pique or linen in a short boxy swagger style.

1960 Woman 23 Apr. 15/1 A good, firm binding that gives a tailored look to a boxy jacket.

2013 C. N. Adichie Americanah i. 4 A middle manager, she was sure, from his boxy suit and contrast collar.

2016 Financial Times 26 Nov. 4 She wore a 1980s shoulder-padded mauve suit... It was boxy, buttony and in-your-face.

3. Of a room: small in size; cramped, confined.Often also implying a box-like shape, and so overlapping with sense 2a.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > of small or scanty extent

narroweOE

straitc1290

scarce1297

scanta1533

pinched?1567

strict1598

thrifty1601

straitened1602

scanty1701

scrimped?c1716

pookit1818

poky1828

postage-stamp-sized1852

poking1864

boxy1870

pocket handkerchief1910

postage stamp1937

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [adjective] > type of accommodation

single-bedded1788

poky1828

poking1864

boxy1870

adult1956

1870 Putnam's Mag. Aug. 191/2 The boxy parlor and a more boxy bed-room, and the yellow sitting-room, were thrown into one drawing-room.

1992 N.Y. Times 19 Jan. ii. 34/2 This..room is not..anything like the great movie palaces of old..; it will feel large only to a generation accustomed to watching movies in boxy little rooms in multi-plexes.

2010 K. Atkinson Started Early, took my Dog (2015) 395 Tracy's new home was a boxy little bedsit with an Ascot water heater and filthy carpets.

4. Of the feet of a horse or mule: high, narrow, and upright, with the hoof wall at a steep angle to the ground.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > [adjective] > of feet of mule

boxy1891

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [adjective] > having particular type of feet > of feet of

female1639

navicular1816

coronary1843

boxy1891

1891 Jrnl. U.S. Cavalry Assoc. Dec. 345 The line formed at the top of the foot where the hair and the hoof meet, must be at about a right angle with the front line of the hoof and the pastern, so that the heels will not be too high and the foot boxy, nor too low and thereby flat and spongy.

1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 271 The feet [of the mule] are narrow and boxy, as compared with the horse.

2007 Horse & Rider Oct. 154/2 Boxy feet are upright and tend to have long heels, and the front feet are often more oval-shaped than rounded.

5. Of recorded or reproduced sound, or a device which produces sound: lacking a full range of tone; sounding as if enclosed in a box; hollow-sounding or lacking resonance.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adjective] > hollow

hollow1563

amphoric1839

boxy1936

1936 Times of India 14 Jan. 18/4 Keep the speaker away from the wall if you want clarity of reproduction, even the best set will sound ‘boxy’ if there is not free space at the back of the loud-speaker.

1941 Time 14 Apr. 55/1 The recording—taken from a radio performance—sounds boxy.

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio ii. 50 The results seem to sound more boxy than they should.

2006 Wired June 76/2 Sometimes you want the drums to sound really syncopated and boxy and computerized.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	boxy
释义	† boxyadj.¹ Forms: see box n.¹ and -y suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: box n.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < box n.¹ + -y suffix¹. Obsolete. rare. Of or resembling boxwood; (esp. of colour) cream or yellow. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [adjective] > box boxen1519 boxy1552 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Boxie or of Boxe, buxeus. 1587 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnius Herbal for Bible xxxiv. 178 The Mulbery tree hath a great & large body, a rugged rinde, his wood inwardly of a boxie or yellowish colour. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 119 This Egge is..sometimes of a Boxie..colour. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 959 Two cornicles like feathers, of a yellow or boxie colour. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021). boxyadj.² Brit. /ˈbɒksi/, U.S. /ˈbɑksi/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: box n.², -y suffix¹. Etymology: < box n.² + -y suffix¹. †1. Enclosed in a box (in quot. with reference to the Eucharist; cf. box n.² 2a). Obsolete. Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1558 C. Goodman How Superior Powers ii. 27 Their rownde cake, which (they say) is consecrated, when with out sense and feeling it lieth closed in their box, subiecte to mowleinge, wormes, and corruption [margin] The boxy mowly, wormy, musty rotten and corrupted Christe. 2. a. Resembling a box in shape; comparable to a box; square or rectangular; cuboid. Often somewhat depreciative.Most frequently used in describing buildings or vehicles. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [adjective] > like a box box-like1742 boxy1834 1834 W. G. Simms Guy Rivers II. xxiii. 309 Then came the compact, boxy, buggy, buttoned-up vehicle of our friend the pedler—a thing for which the unfertile character of our language, as yet, has failed to provide a fitting name. a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent (1883) xxvi. 222 A frowzy county town, with a dusty public square, a boxy church, and a spittley court-house. 1883 W. Harcourt in A. G. Gardiner Life W. Harcourt (1923) I. 492 A tall boxy house will not look well there. 1928 Observer 26 Feb. 20/2 A very covered and boxy effect. 1959 Landfall 13 122 Her nose was flat, with square boxy nostrils. 1978 N.Y. Times 29 Jan. (Automobile section) 3/1 The boxy shape of the car. 2000 M. A. Colety Prodigal Ones iii. 7 The dorm was a tall. boxy building on the outskirts of campus. b. spec. Of clothes (esp. jackets or coats): having a squared appearance. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > other smalleOE lightc1230 round1402 side-necked1430 wanton1489 Spanish1530 tucked1530 lustya1555 civil1582 open-breasted1598 full1601 everlasting1607 sheeten1611 nothinga1616 burly1651 pin-up1677 slouching1691 double-breasted1701 negligée1718 translated1727 uniform1746 undress1777 single-breasted1796 unworn1798 mamalone1799 costumic1801 safeguard1822 Tom and Jerry1830 lightweight1837 fancy dress1844 wrap-1845 hen-skin1846 Mary Stuart1846 well-cut1849 mousquetaire1851 empire1852 costumary1853 solid1859 spring weight1869 Henri II1870 western1881 hard-boiled1882 man-of-war1883 Henley1886 demi-season1890 Gretchen1890 toreador1892 crossover1893 French cut1896 drifty1897 boxy1898 Buster Brown1902 Romney1903 modistic1907 Peter Pan1908 classic1909 Fauntleroy1911 baby doll1912 flared1928 flare1929 tuck-in1929 unpressed1932 Edwardian1934 swingy1937 topless1937 wraparound1937 dressed-down1939 cover-up1942 Sun Yat-sen1942 utility1942 non-utility1948 sudsable1951 off-the-shoulder1953 peasant1953 flareless1954 A-line1955 matador1955 stretch1956 wash-and-wear1959 layered1962 Tom Jones1964 Carnaby Street1965 Action Man1966 Mao-style1967 wear-dated1968 thermal1970 bondage1980 swaggery1980 hoochie1990 mitumba1990 kinderwhore1994 1898 Emporia (Kansas) Daily Gaz. 14 Nov. (advt.) New Top Coats... They are all cut in the popular, short boxy style, and half lined with silk. 1936 Times 10 June 19/6 It may be of pique or linen in a short boxy swagger style. 1960 Woman 23 Apr. 15/1 A good, firm binding that gives a tailored look to a boxy jacket. 2013 C. N. Adichie Americanah i. 4 A middle manager, she was sure, from his boxy suit and contrast collar. 2016 Financial Times 26 Nov. 4 She wore a 1980s shoulder-padded mauve suit... It was boxy, buttony and in-your-face. 3. Of a room: small in size; cramped, confined.Often also implying a box-like shape, and so overlapping with sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > of small or scanty extent narroweOE straitc1290 scarce1297 scanta1533 pinched?1567 strict1598 thrifty1601 straitened1602 scanty1701 scrimped?c1716 pookit1818 poky1828 postage-stamp-sized1852 poking1864 boxy1870 pocket handkerchief1910 postage stamp1937 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [adjective] > type of accommodation single-bedded1788 poky1828 poking1864 boxy1870 adult1956 1870 Putnam's Mag. Aug. 191/2 The boxy parlor and a more boxy bed-room, and the yellow sitting-room, were thrown into one drawing-room. 1992 N.Y. Times 19 Jan. ii. 34/2 This..room is not..anything like the great movie palaces of old..; it will feel large only to a generation accustomed to watching movies in boxy little rooms in multi-plexes. 2010 K. Atkinson Started Early, took my Dog (2015) 395 Tracy's new home was a boxy little bedsit with an Ascot water heater and filthy carpets. 4. Of the feet of a horse or mule: high, narrow, and upright, with the hoof wall at a steep angle to the ground. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > [adjective] > of feet of mule boxy1891 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [adjective] > having particular type of feet > of feet of female1639 navicular1816 coronary1843 boxy1891 1891 Jrnl. U.S. Cavalry Assoc. Dec. 345 The line formed at the top of the foot where the hair and the hoof meet, must be at about a right angle with the front line of the hoof and the pastern, so that the heels will not be too high and the foot boxy, nor too low and thereby flat and spongy. 1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 271 The feet [of the mule] are narrow and boxy, as compared with the horse. 2007 Horse & Rider Oct. 154/2 Boxy feet are upright and tend to have long heels, and the front feet are often more oval-shaped than rounded. 5. Of recorded or reproduced sound, or a device which produces sound: lacking a full range of tone; sounding as if enclosed in a box; hollow-sounding or lacking resonance. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adjective] > hollow hollow1563 amphoric1839 boxy1936 1936 Times of India 14 Jan. 18/4 Keep the speaker away from the wall if you want clarity of reproduction, even the best set will sound ‘boxy’ if there is not free space at the back of the loud-speaker. 1941 Time 14 Apr. 55/1 The recording—taken from a radio performance—sounds boxy. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio ii. 50 The results seem to sound more boxy than they should. 2006 Wired June 76/2 Sometimes you want the drums to sound really syncopated and boxy and computerized. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.¹1552adj.²1558
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