different between doe vs dox

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??/
• (US) enPR: d?, IPA^(key): /do?/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophones: doh, dough, do (in music)

Etymology 1

From Middle English do, from Old English d? (“female deer”), from Proto-Germanic *dajj? (“female deer, mother deer”), from Proto-Germanic *dajjan? (“to suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?(y)- (“to suck (milk), to suckle”).

Cognate with Scots da, dae (“female deer”), Alemannic German t? (“doe”), Danish då (“deer, doe”), Sanskrit ???? (dhenú, “cow, milk-cow”), Old English d?on (“to suckle”), Old English delu (“teat”). Related also to female, filial, fetus.

Noun

doe (plural does)

1. A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope, (less commonly goat as nanny is also used).
2. A female rabbit.
3. A female hare.
4. A female squirrel.
5. A female kangaroo.

Synonyms

• (female deer): hind (female red deer)
• (female kangaroo): blue flyer (female red kangaroo)

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

doe (third-person singular simple present does, present participle doing or doth, simple past did or didde, past participle done)

1. Obsolete spelling of do
   • 1620 Mayflower Compact

     […] a voyage to plant y? first colonie in y? Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in y? presence of God […]

Etymology 3

Adverb

doe (not comparable)

1. (African-American Vernacular, MLE) though

Anagrams

• -ode, EDO, EOD, Edo, ODE, OED, deo, ode

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du/
• Hyphenation: doe
• Rhymes: -u

Etymology 1

Verb

doe

1. first-person singular present indicative of doen
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of doen
3. imperative of doen

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch doe.

Adverb

doe

1. (now dialectal) Alternative form of toen.

Conjunction

doe

1. (now dialectal) Alternative form of toen.

Anagrams

• deo

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch du, from Old Dutch th?, from Proto-West Germanic *þ?, from Proto-Germanic *þ?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [du??]

Pronoun

doe

1. thou, you (singular)

Inflection

• Dative is nowadays obsolete, use accusative instead.

Lindu

Noun

doe

1. end; tip

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch thuo, related to thie (“that one”).

Adverb

doe

1. then, at that time, at the time
2. then, after that

Alternative forms

• doen

Descendants

• Dutch: toen
• Limburgish: doe

Conjunction

doe

1. when, at the time that

Alternative forms

• doen

Descendants

• Dutch: toen
• Limburgish: doe

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

doe

1. inflection of doen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. singular imperative

Further reading

• “doe, doen (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “doe, doen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “doe (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dowsants.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?do.e/

Noun

döe f (genitive doat, nominative plural doit)

1. upper arm

Inflection

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “doe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

References

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?do.i/

Verb

doe

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of doar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of doar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of doar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of doar

Welsh

Etymology

See ddoe (“yesterday”)

Adverb

doe

1. yesterday

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du/

Adverb

doe

1. then, at that time (which is presumably in the past)

Derived terms

• doetiid

Further reading

• “doe”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Alternative forms

• doxx

Etymology

Phonetic respelling of docs, which is a short form of documents.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ks

Noun

dox pl (plural only)

1. (slang) Documents, especially information sought by hackers about an individual (address, credit card numbers, etc.).
   • 1995, "J Eric Chard", Will Vinton's Playmation (on newsgroup comp.graphics.animation)

     Why is it that, even after DECADES of carping from Jerry Pournelle, software companies STILL don't hire competent professionals to write their dox?

   • 2002, "X", this is getting old (on newsgroup houston.general)

     its ok, someone emailed me his address, phone #, ss#, the works. seems theres^[sic] someone out there that dislikes him more than i do. i cant wait to hear how many people have his dox now. this should be really interesting...

   • 2004, "Andrew D Kirch", Here is something that will work for the rest of us (on newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email)

     judging by the lack of the 6 it would appear we have our spammer here, LETS^[sic] PULL HIS DOX!

Verb

dox (third-person singular simple present doxes, present participle doxing, simple past and past participle doxed)

1. Alternative form of doxx (“publish the personal information of (an individual) on the Internet”)

See also

• hax
• vax

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?uh?s- (compare Old Irish donn (“dark”), Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit ???? (dh?sara, “dust-colored”)), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewh?- (“smoke, mist, haze”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doks/

Adjective

dox

1. dark, swarthy

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: dosk
  • English: dusk