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poxpox /pɒks $ pɑːks/ noun old use poxOrigin: 1300-1400 pocks, plural of pock ‘mark on the skin’, from Old English pocc - Bills for gambling debts are stuffed beneath an overflowing chamber-pot and the Prince is surrounded by medications for indigestion and the pox.
- If it was a time of science and silks and gilded barges, it was also a time of pox.
- Some pox formed in his throat and, unable to swallow, he died on March 22, 1758.
NOUN► chicken· No concessions are made to their infant's chicken pox or wedding anniversaries.· Scarlet fever, mumps, chicken pox, and whooping cough floated in the air.· Justin was in the hospital, under observation after he contracted chicken pox and a cough, Lopez said.· I caught influenza along with the chicken pox.· He claims that he really had chicken pox but his doctor misdiagnosed it.· See also Fevers and any other sections as appropriate. Chicken pox Rhus tox.· At the John Radcliffe Hospital she died from the treatment and from chicken pox. 1the pox a)the disease syphilis b)the disease smallpox2a pox on somebody used to show that you are angry or annoyed with someone → chicken pox |