poxy
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- Rhymes: -ɒksi
Adjective edit
poxy (comparative poxier, superlative poxiest)
- (medicine) Suffering from pox.
- (figurative) Sickening; unsatisfactory; generally bad.
- 1990 January 13, David Quantick, Steven Wells, “Is It Rock Art Or Is It Nart?”, in New Musical Express:
- Being a pop star means its goodbye to starving in a poxy garret.
- 2023 November 24, Rory Carroll, “‘Government is not listening’: anger over immigration spills into riot on Dublin’s streets”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- “Everyone bally [balaclava][sic] up, tool up,” said one man. “Let’s show the fucking media that we’re not a fucking pushover, that no more fucking foreigners are allowed into this poxy country.”
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Noun edit
poxy (possessable)
- malice; evilness
- Synonym: memûã
- awkwardness
- dishonesty
- uselessness
- ugliness
- (derogatory) bastard; villain
- Synonym: muru
- (of food) decay; deterioration
- Synonym: tuîuka
Adjective edit
poxy
- (derogatory) abject; evil
- Synonym: memûã
- (derogatory) disgusting; gross; repulsive
- (derogatory) dishonest
- (derogatory) ugly; misshapen
- (of food) spoiled; rotten; deteriorated
- Synonym: tuîuk
Adverb edit
poxy
Interjection edit
poxy!
- hell; damn (expressing discontent, unhappiness, or anger)
- 2005, Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, chapter 10, in Método Moderno de Tupi Antigo: a língua do Brasil dos primeiros séculos, 3 edition (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global Editora, page 135:
- Moxy! Akaî tatá pupé! Xe rasyeté!
- Hell! I burned myself in the fire! It hurts so much!
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Further reading edit
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “poxy”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 406, columns 1–2
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