different between boxen vs woxen

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ks?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English boxen, replacing earlier bixen, from Old English byxen (“made of boxwood”), equivalent to box +? -en.

Adjective

boxen (comparative more boxen, superlative most boxen)

1. Made of boxwood.
2. Resembling box (the wood).

Etymology 2

From box (“computer”) +? -en (archaic plural suffix), by analogy with VAXen.

Noun

boxen

1. (nonstandard, humorous) plural of box (“computer”)

Related terms

• VAXen

References

Anagrams

• Xbone

Catalan

Verb

boxen

1. third-person plural present indicative form of boxar

German

Alternative forms

• bocksen (obsolete)

Etymology

From English box.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?ksn?/, /?b?ks?n/
• Homophone: bocksen

Verb

boxen (weak, third-person singular present boxt, past tense boxte, past participle geboxt, auxiliary haben)

1. to box (strike with the fists)

Conjugation

Further reading

• “boxen” in Duden online
• “boxen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Luxembourgish

Verb

boxen (third-person singular present boxt, past participle geboxt, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. to box

Conjugation

Middle English

Verb

woxen

1. past participle of wax

   • To every wight she woxen is so deere

     And worshipful, that folk ther she was bore

     And from hir birthe knewe hir yeer by yeere,

     Unnethe trowed they, - but dorste han swore -

     That she to Janicle, of which I spak bifore,

     She doghter nere, for as by conjecture,

     Hem thoughte she was another creature.