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English

Etymology

box +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?ks?/
• (US) enPR: bäks??r, IPA^(key): /?b??ks?/
• Rhymes: -?ks?(r)

Noun

boxer (plural boxers)

1. A participant (fighter) in a boxing match.

2. A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
3. A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
4. The person running a game of two-up.
5. One who packs boxes.
   • 1917, Vocational Education Survey of Minneapolis, Minn (page 385)

     They look over the boxes that have been packed, pass judgment upon defects detected by the boxers, and O. K. the boxes […]

6. A letterboxer.

Synonyms

• (participant in a boxing match): pugilist
• (type of engine): boxer engine

Derived terms

• boxer shorts, boxers
• kick-boxer, kickboxer

Related terms

• box
• boxing

Translations

See also

• wrestler
• Boxer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Boxer (dog) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• rebox

Cebuano

Etymology

Named after its glove-like palps.

Noun

boxer

1. an unqualified spider in spider fighting, a male with glove-like palps, instead used as a feed

Czech

Noun

boxer m

1. boxer (participant in a boxing match)

Declension

French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?k.s??/

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

1. boxer (dog)
2. boxer shorts, boxers
3. boxer (engine)

Etymology 2

English box +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?k.se/

Verb

boxer

1. to box (to fight against (a person) in a boxing match)

Conjugation

Related terms

• boxe
• boxeur

Further reading

• “boxer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

boxer m (invariable)

1. boxer shorts

Norman

Etymology

From English box +? -er.

Verb

boxer

1. (Jersey) to box

Portuguese

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

1. boxer (breed of dog)

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French boxeur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bok.ser/

Noun

boxer m (plural boxeri, feminine equivalent boxer?)

1. boxer (participant in a boxing match)

Declension

Synonyms

• pugilist

Related terms

• box
• boxa
• boxare

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English boxer, French boxer, German Boxer.

Noun

boxer m (plural boxeri)

1. boxer (breed of dog)

Declension

References

• boxer in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

1. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of bóxer

English

Etymology

bore +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b????/
• (US) enPR: bôr??r, IPA^(key): /?b????/
• Rhymes: -????(?)

Noun

borer (plural borers)

1. A tedious person.
2. A person who bores, who drills.
3. A tool used for drilling.
4. An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.
5. One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
6. The hagfish (Myxine).

Derived terms

Translations

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

borer

1. present of bore

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Bohrer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??rer/
• Hyphenation: bo?rer

Noun

bórer m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. drill bit
2. drill

Declension

Synonyms

• (drill bit): svrdlo
• (drill): bormašina

References

• “borer” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal