Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Poxy


poxy or poxie \ˈpäks-sē \ noun: 1. suffering from pox, 2. sickening, unsatisfactory, generally bad

Etymology: alteration of pocks, plural of pock, from Middle English pokke, from Old English pocc pustule

Poxy is begging to be used as a widepread term of casual disparagement.

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