dox

• doxx

Phonetic respelling of docs, which is a short form of documents.

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒks

dox pl (plural only)

1. (slang) Documents, especially information sought by hackers about an individual (address, credit card numbers, etc.).
   • 1995, J Eric Chard, “Will Vinton's Playmation”, in comp.graphics.animation (Usenet):

     Why is it that, even after DECADES of carping from Jerry Pournelle, software companies STILL don't hire competent professionals to write their dox?

   • 2002, X, “this is getting old”, in houston.general (Usenet):

     its ok, someone emailed me his address, phone #, ss#, the works. seems theres^[sic] someone out there that dislikes him more than i do. i cant wait to hear how many people have his dox now. this should be really interesting...

   • 2004, Andrew D Kirch, “Here is something that will work for the rest of us”, in news.admin.net-abuse.email (Usenet):

     judging by the lack of the 6 it would appear we have our spammer here, LETS^[sic] PULL HIS DOX!

dox (third-person singular simple present doxes, present participle doxing, simple past and past participle doxed)

1. Alternative form of doxx (“publish the personal information of (an individual) without their consent”)

• hax
• vax

• do, dà

Inherited from Latin dulcem.

dox m (feminine singular doce, masculine plural dox, feminine plural doces) (ORB)

1. sweet

• adocir
• docement
• docior

• doux in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• dox in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

From Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂s- (compare Old Irish donn (“dark”), Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, mist, haze”).

• IPA^(key): /doks/

dox

1. dark, swarthy

• Middle English: dosk
  • English: dusk

dox

1. to walk

• Jean-Léopold Diouf (2003) Dictionnaire wolof-français et français-wolof, Éditions KARTHALA, →ISBN, page 110