See also: Cox, COX, and çox

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Clipping of coxswain.

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cox (plural coxes)

  1. 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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cox (third-person singular simple present coxes, present participle coxing, simple past and past participle coxed)

  1. (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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cox

  1. A crested guan, Penelope purpurascens

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From English cox.

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cox c

  1. (rowing) a cox
    Synonym: styrman

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Declension of cox 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative cox coxen coxar coxarna
Genitive cox coxens coxars coxarnas

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Tetelcingo Nahuatl edit

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C.f. Classical Nahuatl cuix.

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cox

  1. maybe, perhaps
    Synonyms: beli̱s, cana, mati̱

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  • 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