pox
名词 n.
动词 v.
美 /pɑks/
英文释义
名词 n.
- A disease characterized by skin eruptions (especially purulent ones) that may leave pockmarks.
- A disease characterized by skin eruptions (especially purulent ones) that may leave pockmarks.; Syphilis.
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A curse.
— a pox on all their houses
动词 v.
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To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
— Jack had a moſt ſcandalous tongue, and perſuaded Peg that all mankind, beſides himſelf, were pox'd by that ſcarlet-faced whore, †Signiora Bubonia. “As for his brother Lord Peter, the tokens were evident on him, blotches, ſcabs, and the corona. […]”
词汇关系
衍生词
antipox
a pox on
buffalopox
camelpox
canarypox
carp pox
chicken pox
cottonpox
cowpox
fowlpox
French pox
goatpox
great-pox
hog pox
hornpox
horsepox
horse-pox
kine-pox
milkpox
monkey pox
monkeypox
monkey-pox
mousepox
orthopox
parapox
plum pox
pox doctor's clerk
poxless
poxlike
pox party
poxviral
poxvirus
poxy
pseudopox
rabbitpox
raccoonpox
rickettsialpox
scrumpox
sealpox
sheeppox
skunk pox
smallpox
squirrelpox
swinepox
Tanapox
turkeypox
volepox
wartpox
water pox
whitepox
词源
词源 1
From the plural of Middle English pocke. See also pock. The curse sense involves metonymy: wishing a literal pox upon someone is the original form of pox-relevant curse, and the word pox itself also came to mean curse.
词源 2
From the plural of Middle English pocke. See also pock. The curse sense involves metonymy: wishing a literal pox upon someone is the original form of pox-relevant curse, and the word pox itself also came to mean curse.
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