Definitions for pox

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pox pox

Spelling: [poks]

IPA: /pɒks/

Pox is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 10 anagrams from letters in pox (opx).

Definitions for pox

noun

1. a disease characterized by multiple skin pustules, as smallpox.
2. syphilis.
3. Also called soil rot. Plant Pathology. a disease of sweet potatoes, characterized by numerous pitlike lesions on the roots, caused by a fungus, Streptomyces ipomoea.
4. (used as an interjection to express distaste, rejection, aversion, etc.):

Origin of pox

1540-50 (earlier as surname); spelling variant of pocks, plural of pock

Examples for pox

A pox o your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!

Mebbe the best thing I could do would be to take the pox and go under.

These words you may write, and let Joe, or Mr. Warburton, give them to him: a pox on him!

I little thought, fool that I was, that he would get this pox.

A pox on him, I have too many such customers on this side already.

For example, though I had chicken pox decades ago, I still have antibody to chicken pox.

pox take the Tailors for making the Fobs so deep and narrow!

O, pox on your spelling of Latin, Johnsonibus atque, that is the way.

Libertarians, of course, have grimly wished a pox on both their houses of Congress.

The pox only converts them, and that only when it kills them.