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cox en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /kɑks/ (US)
  • käks (US)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /kɒks/ (UK)

Etymology

Clipping of coxswain.

Meanings

  1. A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew.
    • A particularly nervous boy was appointed cox, and the steering principle explained to him by Joskins. Joskins himself took stroke. He told the others that it was simple enough; all they had to do was to follow him. 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] :

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
coxes Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

cox box · coxless · coxie · box and cox

Source: en.wiktionary, “cox” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

cox en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /kɑks/ (US)
  • käks (US)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /kɒks/ (UK)

Etymology

Clipping of coxswain.

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive) To act as coxswain for.
    • The physicist Stephen Hawking used to cox for a college rowing team.
    • I coxed the lightweight 4+ yesterday.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
coxing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
coxed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
coxed Tense=Past lexicographic
coxes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

coxed