Definitions for oxes

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oxes ox

Spelling: [oks]

IPA: /ɒks/

Oxes is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in oxes (eosx).

Definitions for oxes

noun

1. the adult castrated male of the genus Bos, used chiefly as a draft animal.
2. any member of the bovine family.
3. Informal. a clumsy, stupid fellow.

Origin of oxes

before 900; Middle English oxe, Old English oxa; cognate with Old Frisian oxa, Old Saxon, Old High German ohso, Old Norse uxi, oxi; akin to Welsh ych

Examples for oxes

She plowed two oxes, an' if'en yo' has eber been around a steer yo' knows what aggravatin' things dey is.

Then they shewed him the oxes goad wherewith Shamger slew six hundred men.