pox
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- Stati Uniti//pɑks//
A disease characterized by skin eruptions (especially purulent ones) that may leave pockmarks.
sostantivo
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A disease characterized by skin eruptions (especially purulent ones) that may leave pockmarks.
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A disease characterized by skin eruptions (especially purulent ones) that may leave pockmarks. Syphilis.
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figuratoA curse.
a pox on all their houses
A pox on him, he's a cat still.
Etimologia
From the plural of Middle English pocke. See also pock. The curse sense involves metonymy: wishing a literal pox upon someone is the original form of pox-relevant curse, and the word pox itself also came to mean curse.
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desuetoTo infect with the pox, or syphilis.
Jack had a moſt ſcandalous tongue, and perſuaded Peg that all mankind, beſides himſelf, were pox'd by that ſcarlet-faced whore, †Signiora Bubonia. “As for his brother Lord Peter, the tokens were evident on him, blotches, ſcabs, and the corona. […]”
Forme
- plurale
- poxes
- passato
- poxed
- participio passato
- poxed
- participio presente
- poxing
- 3ª persona singolare
- poxes
pox · A disease characterized by skin eruptions (especially purulent ones) that may leave pockmarks.
PR · A PR interval.practical · Relating to, or based on, practice or action rather than…practically · In practice; in effect or in actuality, though possibly not…