cox
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /kɒks/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) enPR: käks, IPA(key): /kɑks/
- Rhymes: -ɒks
- Homophone: cocks
Noun
editcox (plural coxes)
- A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew. [from mid-19th c.]
- 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] [1]:
- A particularly nervous boy was appointed cox, and the steering principle explained to him by Joskins. Joskins himself took stroke. He told the others that it was simple enough; all they had to do was to follow him.
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editVerb
editcox (third-person singular simple present coxes, present participle coxing, simple past and past participle coxed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To act as coxswain for.
- The physicist Stephen Hawking used to cox for a college rowing team.
- I coxed the lightweight 4+ yesterday.
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Swedish
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editNoun
editcox c
Declension
editnominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | cox | cox |
definite | coxen | coxens | |
plural | indefinite | coxar | coxars |
definite | coxarna | coxarnas |
References
editTetelcingo Nahuatl
editEtymology
editC.f. Classical Nahuatl cuix.
Pronunciation
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References
edit- Brewer, Forrest, Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)[2] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published 1971, pages 82, 94, 117
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