cox
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /kɒks/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) enPR: käks, IPA(key): /kɑks/
- Rhymes: -ɒks
- Homophone: cocks
Noun edit
cox (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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Verb edit
cox (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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Noun edit
cox
Swedish edit
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Noun edit
cox c
Declension edit
Declension of cox | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | cox | coxen | coxar | coxarna |
Genitive | cox | coxens | coxars | coxarnas |
References edit
Tetelcingo Nahuatl edit
Etymology edit
C.f. Classical Nahuatl cuix.
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Adverb edit
cox
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