different between rox vs cox

English

Pronunciation

Verb

rox

1. (slang, informal) Alternative spelling of rocks (“in sense of excelling, being great”)

Antonyms

• sux

Anagrams

• -xor, XOR, xor

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

From Latin russus.

Adjective

rox m (feminine singular rossi or rossa, masculine plural rox, feminine plural rosses)

1. red

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /?o??/
• Tone numbers: ro⁴
• Hyphenation: rox

Etymology 1

Compare Lao ??? (l??); Thai ???? (r???).

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Conjunction

rox (old orthography ro?)

1. or

Derived terms

• roxnaeuz

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *r??w? (“to know”). Cognate with Thai ??? (rúu), Northern Thai ???, Isan ???, Lao ??? (h?), Lü ??? (huu²), Tai Dam ???, Shan ??? (h??u), Ahom ???????? (ruu) or ???????????????? (ruw), Saek ??.

Verb

rox (old orthography ro?)

1. to know

Derived terms

See also

• caek
• gyaek
• sux

English

Etymology

Shortening of coxswain.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?ks/
• (US) enPR: käks, IPA^(key): /k?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks
• Homophone: cocks

Noun

cox (plural coxes)

1. A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew. [from mid-19th C.]

Derived terms

• coxless
• coxie

Verb

cox (third-person singular simple present coxes, present participle coxing, simple past and past participle coxed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To act as coxswain for.

   The physicist Stephen Hawking used to cox for a college rowing team.

   I coxed the lightweight 4+ yesterday.

Derived terms

• coxed

Anagrams

• CXO, CxO

Chol

Noun

cox

1. A crested guan, Penelope purpurascens

Swedish

Etymology

From English cox

Noun

cox c

1. a cox

Declension

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Etymology

C.f. Classical Nahuatl cuix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?/

Adverb

cox

1. maybe, perhaps

   Synonyms: beli?s, cana, mati?

References

• Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)?^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published 1971, pages 82, 94, 117