hox
See also: HOX
English
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Inherited from Middle English hoxen, reduction or back-formation of earlier hoxenen, from the noun *hoxene (only attested as hokschyne, with alteration after schyne), from Old English hōhsinu, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hasinu, from Proto-Germanic *hanhasinwō, from *hanhaz (“heel”) + *senawō (“sinew”). Compare hough, huxen, and sinew.
Verb
hox (third-person singular simple present hoxes, present participle hoxing, simple past and past participle hoxed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To hock; to hamstring; to cripple; to disable.
- c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, act 1, scene 2:
- To bide upon't: thou art not honest; or / If thou inclin'st that way, thou art a coward, / Which hoxes honesty behind, restraining / From course required.
Hypernyms
Finnish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhoks/, [ˈho̞ks̠]
- Rhymes: -oks
- Syllabification(key): hox
Usage notes
- Usually written without a dot, despite abbreviations requiring one in standard written Finnish.
Middle English
Northern Kurdish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hoːx/
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “hox”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 264
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