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boxen en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From Middle English boxen, replacing earlier bixen, from Old English byxen (“made of boxwood”), equivalent to box + -en.

Meanings

  1. Made of boxwood.
  2. Resembling box (the wood).

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boxen en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From box (“computer”) + -en (archaic/Germanic plural suffix), by analogy with VAXen and possibly also oxen.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, humorous, nonstandard, plural) plural of box (“computer”)
    form of box
    • Reality: Sun and HP are hardware companies. They make boxen. 2004, Joel Spolsky, chapter 40, in Joel on Software, Apress, →ISBN, page 287:

Relateds

VAXen