hox

See also: HOX

English

Etymology 1

Noun

hox (plural hoxes)

1. (genetics) Abbreviation of homeobox.

Derived terms

• hox gene

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)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• hamstring, hock, hough

Hypernyms

• See Thesaurus:disable

Finnish

Alternative forms

• HOX

Etymology

Clipping of hoksaa (“take note”). Compare huom..

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoks/, [ˈho̞ks̠]
• Rhymes: -oks
• Syllabification^(key): hox

Interjection

hox (colloquial)

1. Synonym of huom. (“NB, take note”).

Usage notes

• Usually written without a dot, despite abbreviations requiring one in standard written Finnish.

Middle English

Noun

hox

1. Alternative form of oxe

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Armenian հող (hoġ). Doublet of xwelî.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hoːx/

Noun

hox m (Arabic spelling هۆخ)

1. plowed field

   Synonym: beyar

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “hox”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 264