different between poz vs pox

English

Etymology

Clipping of positive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?z/
• Rhymes: -?z
• Homophones: pause (in accents with the cot-caught merger), paws (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Adjective

poz (not comparable)

1. (slang) HIV positive.

   Synonym: pozzed

   Antonym: neg

Verb

poz (third-person singular simple present pozzes, present participle pozzing, simple past and past participle pozzed)

1. (slang, transitive) To infect (someone) with a sexually transmitted disease.
2. (slang, transitive, nonstandard) To say something positive to someone about themselves.

   Synonym: compliment

Related terms

• pozzed

Breton

Noun

poz

1. Hard mutation of boz.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pozdrav

Interjection

p?z (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (text messaging, Internet slang, informal) bye! (greeting)
2. (text messaging, Internet slang, informal) hello! hi! (greeting)

Synonyms

• pozdrav

English

Etymology

From the plural of Middle English pocke. See also pock.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /p?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks
• Homophone: pocks

Noun

pox (countable and uncountable, plural poxes)

1. A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.
2. Syphilis.
3. (figuratively) A curse.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, act IV, scene 3

     A pox on him, he's a cat still.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pox (third-person singular simple present poxes, present participle poxing, simple past and past participle poxed)

1. (transitive, dated) To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bok (“dirt, dung”). Cognate with Turkish bok, Chuvash ??? (p?h) etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?/

Noun

pox (definite accusative poxu, plural poxlar)

1. shit (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowel)

Declension

Derived terms

• için? pox qoymaq (“to ruin”)
• poxu ç?xmaq (“to go to hell, be ruined”)
• poxa dü?m?k (“to get in trouble”) (intransitive)
• poxa salmaq (“to get in trouble”) (transitive)
• pox yem?k (“to crap up, make a big mistake”)
• pox yer? qoymamaq (“to despise, disrespect”)

See also

• s?çmaq (“to shit”)

Coatlán Mixe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?/

Noun

pox

1. guava