poxy

• poxie

pox +‎ -y

• Rhymes: -ɒksi

poxy (comparative poxier, superlative poxiest)

1. (medicine) Suffering from pox.
2. (figurative) Sickening; unsatisfactory; generally bad.
   • 1990 January 13, David Quantick, Steven Wells, “Is It Rock Art Or Is It Nart?”, in New Musical Express:

     Being a pop star means its goodbye to starving in a poxy garret.

   • 2023 November 24, Rory Carroll, “‘Government is not listening’: anger over immigration spills into riot on Dublin’s streets”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     “Everyone bally [balaclava]^[sic] up, tool up,” said one man. “Let’s show the fucking media that we’re not a fucking pushover, that no more fucking foreigners are allowed into this poxy country.”

• pockmark
• pockmarked
• chickenpox
• smallpox

• lousy

• moxy, mboxy

• IPA^(key): /pɔˈʃɨ/
• Rhymes: -ɨ
• Hyphenation: po‧xy

poxy (possessable)

1. malice; evilness

   Synonym: memûã

2. awkwardness
3. dishonesty
4. uselessness
5. ugliness
6. (derogatory) bastard; villain

   Synonym: muru

7. (of food) decay; deterioration

   Synonym: tuîuka

poxy

1. (derogatory) abject; evil

   Synonym: memûã

2. (derogatory) disgusting; gross; repulsive
3. (derogatory) dishonest
4. (derogatory) ugly; misshapen
5. (of food) spoiled; rotten; deteriorated

   Synonym: tuîuk

poxy

1. badly
2. abjectly; evilly

   Synonym: memûã

3. awkwardly

poxy!

1. hell; damn (expressing discontent, unhappiness, or anger)
   • 2005, Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, chapter 10, in Método Moderno de Tupi Antigo: a língua do Brasil dos primeiros séculos, 3 edition (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global Editora, page 135:

     Moxy! Akaî tatá pupé! Xe rasyeté!

     Hell! I burned myself in the fire! It hurts so much!

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “poxy”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 406, columns 1–2