cox

Shortening of coxswain.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɒks/

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• (US) enPR: käks, IPA^(key): /kɑks/
• Rhymes: -ɒks
• Homophone: cocks

cox (plural coxes)

1. A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew. [from mid-19th c.]

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.

• coxed

• CXO, CxO

cox

1. A crested guan, Penelope purpurascens

From English cox.

cox c

1. a cox

C.f. Classical Nahuatl cuix.

• IPA^(key): /koʃ/

cox

1. maybe, perhaps

   Synonyms: beli̱s, cana, mati̱

• Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)‎ (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